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lithium fluoride

noun

, Chemistry.
  1. a fine, white, slightly water-soluble powder, LiF, used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramics.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of lithium fluoride1

First recorded in 1940–45
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Example Sentences

The blend, thoroughly mixed as a solid solution, allows for the reversible conversion -- meaning the battery can be recharged -- of a fine mixture of iron powder, lithium fluoride and lithium phosphate into iron salts.

Scientists studying batteries generally regard lithium fluoride as a necessary component of a good interphase.

In a first-of-its-kind collision chamber at Argonne National Laboratory, physicist Yogendra Gupta of Washington State University and his colleagues mimicked a meteorite impact by firing a lithium fluoride bullet at a graphite disk at 5.1 kilometers per second.

Transatomic instead uses a lithium fluoride – uranium fluoride salt, which can contain about 27 times more uranium.

From Forbes

When the magnetism is removed, the lithium fluoride gets colder.

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