How to Use lithium carbonate in a Sentence

lithium carbonate

noun
  • An electric current strips carbon atoms from the lithium carbonate and adds heat that sustains the reaction.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 19 Sep. 2019
  • All key battery metals have seen prices advance over the past year, with lithium carbonate in China more than doubling.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The process relies on a type of molten salt known as lithium carbonate, or Li2CO3.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 31 May 2018
  • Both lithium carbonate and hydroxide can be used in lithium-ion batteries.
    — Micah Maidenberg, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Lithium demand has been soaring, with prices for lithium carbonate rising by over 4x over the past 12 months.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • The Li2O, meanwhile, reacts with carbon dioxide in the air and re-forms the lithium carbonate salt.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018
  • The byproducts include lithium carbonate, which Li-Cycle can sell back into the battery supply chain.
    — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2020
  • More commonly used for health purposes, lithium carbonate is often used in tandem with treatment of mental health disorders.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 31 May 2018
  • Pools of brine containing lithium carbonate and mounds of salt bi-product stretch through a lithium mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
    — WIRED, 24 Jan. 2023
  • It can be refined into lithium hydroxide or lithium carbonate — the battery-grade chemicals used in lithium-ion batteries.
    — Ray Mwayera, semafor.com, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Tianqi expects demand for lithium resources to improve on a slew of stimulus measures, adding that there have been signs of slight rebound in lithium carbonate prices as of July.
    — Annie Lee, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The average price of lithium carbonate has been erratic - halving before doubling again, and this has made investors wary of investing in new capacity.
    — Neil Winton, Forbes, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Australia is the world's largest producer of lithium carbonate, the stable salt that is refined into the highly reactive lithium metal used in batteries.
    — Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Production emissions for 1 metric ton of lithium carbonate, for example, are three times higher than that of steel, the IEA report says.
    — Shel Evergreen, Ars Technica, 2 May 2022
  • Lithium remains in a viscous yellow green pool, which SQM converts into powdery white lithium carbonate for battery makers abroad.
    — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Lithium prices have soared, with spot prices for lithium carbonate surging by almost 70% year-to-date, and by roughly 4x over the past year, driven by strong demand for EVs.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • In a few years, the company plans to upgrade the facility to produce lithium carbonate, which contains a much higher concentration of lithium than the raw metal extracted from the ground.
    — Jack Ewing Brendan George Ko For The New York Times, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2022
  • An image provided by Neptune Energy shows lithium carbonate.
    — Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Lithium chemicals such as lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate are key ingredients in many rechargeable batteries used in electric cars and energy storage systems.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Prices of lithium carbonate, used in cathodes, have doubled year-to-date, according to research firm Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 22 July 2021
  • If that happens, Ford will be able to source lithium mined and processed in the United States and thus less reliant on global supply chains for lithium carbonate that are largely dominated by China.
    — David Blackmon, Forbes, 25 July 2022
  • In 1970, the agency approved lithium carbonate for bipolar disorder; today, it’s also used off-label mostly for major depressive disorder.
    — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Lithium bottlenecks hurting Prices for battery-grade lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide have been soaring so fast, Tesla is already factoring in the higher costs into its current vehicle prices now.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Morgan Stanley however says EV makers will need to raise prices by 15%, citing the cost pressures on battery suppliers as Chinese prices for lithium carbonate spiral.
    — Danny Lee, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The price of lithium carbonate—a raw material in batteries—fell 70% this year, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence data shows.
    — Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The shift to electric vehicles has spurred a global rush for lithium, which is used in virtually all EV batteries, and seen Chinese prices of lithium carbonate surge more than 400 percent over the past year.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2022
  • An earlier boom-and-bust cycle sent prices for both lithium carbonate and hydroxide rising until about three years ago, when a price index maintained by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence hit a peak before falling.
    — Micah Maidenberg, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Element3 officials said the successful production of lithium will come from Permian Basin produced water in its lithium carbonate facility in Midland.
    — Samuel O’Neal 6, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2026
  • After a second pilot test for lithium extraction to produce battery grade lithium carbonate, Neptune started a third pilot test earlier in September to evaluate an adsorption process to recover the mineral from brine water.
    — Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Tracing its history to the construction of its first lithium carbonate plant in 1992, Tianqi mines lithium in Australia and produces lithium compounds and derivatives in China, a prospectus shows.
    — Filipe Pacheco, Fortune, 7 July 2022

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