lithium carbonate
noun
: a crystalline salt Li2CO3 used in the glass and ceramic industries and in medicine especially in the treatment of bipolar disorder
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Standard Lithium is hoping to use a process called direct lithium extraction to create lithium carbonate from the salty brine in the Smackover Formation, a geological area including parts of south Arkansas and east Texas and stretching to parts of the Florida Panhandle.
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Brett Barrouquere, Arkansas Online, 27 May 2025
The project is being developed in phases, with the first phase targeting an annual production of 40,000 tonnes of battery-grade lithium carbonate.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2025
The concentrated lithium carbonate salts are driven in great convoys of trucks to the city of Antofagasta on the coast, where they are purified and exported to be made into batteries — and end up in your cellphone or electric vehicle.
—John Bartlett, NPR, 23 Feb. 2025
Prices of the benchmark 99.2% lithium carbonate have fallen over 20% year-to-date to $10,800 per metric ton, FactSet data shows.
—Lee Ying Shan,matt Clinch, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2024
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Brett Barrouquere, Arkansas Online, 27 May 2025
The project is being developed in phases, with the first phase targeting an annual production of 40,000 tonnes of battery-grade lithium carbonate.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2025
The concentrated lithium carbonate salts are driven in great convoys of trucks to the city of Antofagasta on the coast, where they are purified and exported to be made into batteries — and end up in your cellphone or electric vehicle.
—John Bartlett, NPR, 23 Feb. 2025
Prices of the benchmark 99.2% lithium carbonate have fallen over 20% year-to-date to $10,800 per metric ton, FactSet data shows.
—Lee Ying Shan,matt Clinch, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Lithium carbonate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lithium%20carbonate. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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