Lithium antimonate

Lithium antimonate, LiSb03,3H20.—The antimonate is precipitated in crystalline form on addition of potassium antimonate to a lithium salt in solution.7 Like the sodium salt, it is only slightly soluble in water. 

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The flame coloration and the spectrum (p. 54) afford delicate tests for the presence of lithium. From solutions which are not too dilute it can be precipitated as phosphate, fluoride, or carbonate. Like sodium, it yields an antimonate of slight solubility, but in contradistinction to potassium its platino-chloride and hydrogen tartrate are soluble. 

SYNS ANTHIOLIMINE ANTHIOMALINE UTHIUM ANTIMONIOTHIOMALATE MERCAPTO-SUCCINIC ACID ANTIMONATE(III) HEXAUTHIUM SALT MERCAPTOSUCCINIC ACID-S-ANTIMONY DERIVATIVE LITHIUM SALT MERCAPTOSUCCINIC ACID,THIOANTIMONATE(III), DIUTHIUM SALT 2,2, 2"-(STIBILIDYNETRIS(THIO))TRIS-BUTANEDIOIC ACID HEXALITHIUM SALT... 

Lithium has been the treatment of choice for manic-depressive illness for several decades. Lithium is a trace element found in plants, mineral rocks, and in the human body. Today, the major source of medical lithium is mines in North Carolina. Lithium is classified as an antimonic medication because of its ability to reverse mania, a mood disorder characterized by extreme exeitement and activity, hi addition, lithium is also effective in reversing deep depression, the other mood extreme of manic-depressive illness, and in decreasing the frequency of manic and depressive cycles in patients. Manic-depressive illness is now generally referred to as bipolar disorder, a term preferred in the psychiatric community. 

It is observed that anions based on milder Lewis acids are stable in organic solvents at room temperature and have been extensively investigated by workers in this field. Examples of these salts include lithium perchlorate and lithium borates, arsenates, phosphates, and antimonates. Following Xu [1], some examples of these salts are presented in Table 11.3, together with some of their basic physical properties also shown are their ion conductivity data in PC, and EC/DMC (1 1) the two solvents well studied by investigators in the area of lithium battery research. In general, carbonates and esters are more anodically stable while ethers are more resistant to cathodic decompositions [1]. Thus, solvents used in most commercial batteries are mixtures of solvents, plus some additives, in order to obtain various desirable properties their compositions are usually kept as proprietary information. 

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