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Date:      Tue, 19 Nov 1996 14:18:36 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, ejs@bfd.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Who needs Perl? We do! 
Message-ID:  <E0vPxYy-0000IM-00@rover.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Nov 1996 14:01:19 MST." <199611192101.OAA09538@phaeton.artisoft.com> 
References:  <199611192101.OAA09538@phaeton.artisoft.com>  

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In message <199611192101.OAA09538@phaeton.artisoft.com> Terry Lambert writes:
: > At STP (20 C, 1 atmosphere), Lithium is a whitish metal solid.
: 
: LiO2 or Li2?

Li.  Lithium doesn't form a molecule like Hydrogen unless heated to
high temperatures.  Lithiums melting point is around 30C and its
boiling point is around 40C or 50C.  It isn't until it boils off that
you get Li2, a gas.

I don't have my CRC handy to look up the actual values here, but this
is what I recall from my college Chemestry labs.  Li is violently
reactive when exposed to anything, which is what makes Li+ Ion
batteries so powerful (and so dangerous).

Warner



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