lithium oxide

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noun Chemistry.

a white powder, Li2O, with strong alkaline properties: used in ceramics and glass.

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Also called lithia.

Words nearby lithium oxide

lithium carbonate, lithium chloride, lithium citrate, lithium fluoride, lithium hydroxide, lithium oxide, lithium stearate, litho, lithogenous, lithograph, lithographer

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How to use lithium oxide in a sentence

I have previously drawn attention to the cargo aboard Flight 370, which included a large consignment of lithium-ion batteries.
The Flight 370 Zombie Theory Rises From the Dead|Clive Irving|June 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Last week it made five recommendations directed at the testing and certification of lithium-ion batteries.
NTSB Doesn’t Think the Boeing 787 Dreamliner Is Safe Enough to Fly|Clive Irving|May 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Lithium-ion batteries will further increase underwater performance.
Tomorrow’s Stealthy Subs Could Sink America’s Navy|Bill Sweetman|May 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
How can this saga of the lithium-ion batteries be tied to the fate of Flight 370?
Passenger Flights Must Stop Carrying Lithium-Ion Batteries as Cargo|Clive Irving|May 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST

A month after that announcement, unaccustomed daylight was forced upon the lithium-ion battery industry.
Passenger Flights Must Stop Carrying Lithium-Ion Batteries as Cargo|Clive Irving|May 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Reddish and yellowish sandy clay, coloured by oxide of iron, and used as pigments by the natives.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
Blew in two faces & got good looking ore seamed with a black incrustation, oxide of something, but what could not determine.
Cabin Fever|B. M. Bower
The properties of ammoniacal solutions of silver oxide are in entire agreement with this conception.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2.|Julius Stieglitz
It is, in fact, on account of this property, that potassium oxide is decomposed by water.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2.|Julius Stieglitz
The oxide, K2O, is decomposed by neutralizing hydrogen ions formed by the primary ionization of water.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2.|Julius Stieglitz

British Dictionary definitions for lithium oxide

lithium oxide

noun

a white crystalline compound. It absorbs carbon dioxide and water vapour

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