Lithium Definition and 106 Threads

trying to understand the physical properties of lithium, since it is a metalic liquid, Can it be magnetized? Could it be forced through a tube that has a current spiraling around it, like in an electromagnet? Does it break down over time, and what happens to it if it does?

A lithium atom (mass doesn't matter) is being pushed from rest by a laser beam whose power is 1mW. Find the velocity of this lithium atom as a function of time So here goes what i have done v(t) = \frac{1}{2} at^2 now F = ma = \frac{\Delta p}{\Delta t} so then a = \frac{\Delta...

Hello all I was asked a question on the first ionisation energy of Lithium and berylium, and it confused me. It seemed obvious to other people in the class that Berylium has a higher ionisation energy than Lithium (which according to my chemistry teacher is the right answer) Now This...

I seem to be stuck on this problem. I thought calculating the velocity of the center of mass of the system would get me somewhere, but I remain confused about where to go next. Here is the problem: The light isotope, 5^Li is unstable and breaks up spontaneously into a proton (hydrogen nucleus)...

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-ph/pdf/0306/0306024.pdf Cold dark matter may be made of superweakly-interacting massive particles, superWIMPs, that naturally inherit the desired relic density from late decays of metastable WIMPs. Well-motivated examples are weak-scale gravitinos in...

I was in chemistry class today and I wasn't really paying much attention because its all quite simple stuff we're doing (systems in equilibrium) and my professor mentioned a Lithium compound that got me thinking. Why do I never see anything made out of a lithium compound? Its directly...