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lithium hydroxide

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noun

Chemistry.
  1. a white, crystalline, water-soluble compound, LiOH, used to absorb carbon dioxide, especially in spacesuits.


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Albemarle also said it would be idling the remaining operating train at its Kemerton lithium hydroxide processing plant in Western Australia.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

Once complete, it will have production capacity of 24,000 metric tons of lithium hydroxide monohydrate, which is enough to produce around 500,000 electric-vehicle batteries a year, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Chinese companies refine the spodumene into solid lithium, and into the two lithium compounds used in batteries - lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2024

In future studies, Müller hopes to understand why lithium hydroxide works so well and whether even less expensive, more abundant materials can be substituted to bring the cost down further.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2024

A second possibility was that some of the chemical called lithium hydroxide had gotten into our eyes.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

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