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Lithium (from Greek: λίθος lithos, "stone") is a chemical element with the symbol Li and atomic number 3. It is a soft, silver-white metal belonging to the alkali metal group of chemical elements. Under standard conditions it is the lightest metal and the least dense solid element. Like all alkali metals, lithium is highly reactive and flammable. For this reason, it is typically stored in mineral oil. When cut open, it exhibits a metallic luster, but contact with moist air corrodes the surface quickly to a dull silvery gray, then black tarnish. Because of its high reactivity, lithium never occurs freely in nature, and instead, only appears in compounds, which are usually ionic. Lithium occurs in a number of pegmatitic minerals, but due to its solubility as an ion, is present in ocean water and is commonly obtained from brines and clays. On a commercial scale, lithium is isolated electrolytically from a mixture of lithium chloride and potassium chloride.
The nuclei of lithium verge on instability, since the two stable lithium isotopes found in nature have among the lowest binding energies per nucleon of all stable nuclides. Because of its relative nuclear instability, lithium is less common in the solar system than 25 of the first 32 chemical elements even though the nuclei are very light in atomic weight. For related reasons, lithium has important links to nuclear physics. The transmutation of lithium atoms to helium in 1932 was the first fully man-made nuclear reaction, and lithium-6 deuteride serves as a fusion fuel in staged thermonuclear weapons.
Lithium Technologies provides social customer experience management software for the enterprise. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lithium has additional offices in London, Austin, Paris, Sydney, Singapore, New York, and Zürich.
Lithium was founded in 2001 as a spin-out from GX Media, which created technologies for professional rankings and tournaments and now hosts a number of popular gaming sites. The company's founders include brothers Lyle Fong and Dennis Fong, who together also founded GX Media, as well as Kirk Yokomizo, John Joh, Nader Alizadeh, Michel Thouati, Michael Yang, and Matt Ayres. The company sells largely to enterprise customers, including HP, Best Buy, Research In Motion, Sony, Comcast, Symantec, and AT&T.
The Lithium Social Customer Experience Management Platform combines online customer community applications such as forums, blogs, innovation management, product reviews, and tribal knowledge bases with the broader social Web and traditional CRM business processes, resulting in a wide range of online customer interaction methods. Lithium's SaaS-based platform delivers products on-demand in a hosted environment rather than as traditional, packaged software. Stemming from its gaming roots, the platform incorporates elaborate rating systems for contributors, with ranks, badges, and “kudos counts.”
Lithium is a 1990s grunge and alternative rock channel airing on Sirius XM Radio channel 34 and Dish Network channel 6034. It debuted on Sirius Satellite Radio on February 14, 2007, moving SIRIUS Disorder to channel 32 and later to channel 70. An update was sent to all Sirius radios which corrected the issue where Lithium was called "'90s Alternative" and the Stiletto radios displayed the Sirius logo.
The Sirius radios and website displayed the channel as "Lithium." It took its name from the Nirvana song, Lithium. Lithium was the first all-1990s channel since I-90 signed off on November 4, 2002.
While the primary focus is grunge and alternative rock, the channel also played bands from the late 1990s wave of nu metal and alternative metal, such as Limp Bizkit, Orgy and Slipknot.
On November 12, 2008, during the Sirius/XM channel merger, the XM channel Lucy was renamed as Lithium. Whereas the old Lithium didn't feature adult album alternative bands such as The Cranberries or Crash Test Dummies, Lucy featured those artists. The Lucy playlist dropped all the 2000s music already played on its sister Alt Nation channel, and Lucy took on the Lithium name. Mediabase lists Lithium as X054-FM rather than S024-FM.
Drum is a 2004 film based on the life of South African investigative journalist Henry Nxumalo, who worked for the popular Drum magazine, called "the first black lifestyle magazine in Africa." It was director Zola Maseko's first film and deals with the issues of apartheid and the forced removal of residents from Sophiatown. The film was originally to be a six-part television series called Sophiatown Short Stories, though Maseko could not get the funding. The lead roles of Henry Nxumalo and Drum main photographer Jürgen Schadeberg were played by American actors Taye Diggs and Gabriel Mann, while most of the rest of the cast were South African actors.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2004, and proceeded to do the rounds of international film festivals before going on general release in South Africa in July 2006. It was released in Europe, but failed to get a distributor for the USA where it went straight to DVD.
The film was generally well received critically. Most of the negative reviews were based on the quality of Maseko's directing and Jason Filardi's screenwriting. It was awarded Best South African Film at the Durban International Film Festival, and director Maseko gained the top prize at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO).
A drum is a musical instrument.
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Drum is a maxi yacht formerly co-owned by lead singer of Duran Duran Simon le Bon and currently owned by Scottish businessman Sir Arnold Clark.
Drum was designed by Ireland-based boat-builder Ron Holland and built in Finland.Drum was purpose-designed and built to be sailed in the Whitbread Round the World Race.
Drum competed in the 1985 Fastnet Race. It was one of the favorites to win the race, but the boat lost its keel due to a design failure and capsized. Its crew were all rescued.
Drum was re-fitted and competed in the 1985–86 Whitbread Round the World Race.
As of 2013 Drum is owned by Scottish businessman Arnold Clark, who purchased the yacht in the late 1980s. In 1988 Drum was accorded media attention when it was involved in a collision with a Royal Navy submarine.
REMASTERED IN HD!! Official Music Video for Lithium performed by Nirvana. Nevermind (30th Anniversary Edition) is available now: https://Nirvana.lnk.to/Nevermind30thID Commemorating the 30th anniversary of Nirvana’s seminal 1991 release, Nevermind is celebrated with the newly remastered album from the original analog tapes and 4 concerts from Amsterdam, Netherlands; Del Mar, California; Melbourne, Australia and Tokyo, Japan. Follow Nirvana: Website: https://www.nirvana.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Nirvana Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nirvana Subscribe on YouTube: https://Nirvana.lnk.to/YTSubscribeID #Nirvana #Lithium #Nevermind30 (C) 1992 Geffen Records
Watch the official music video for "Lithium" performed by Evanescence Music video by Evanescence performing Lithium. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 7,324 (c) 2006 Wind-up Records, LLC
This is a lyrics of Nirvana-Lithium(1080p) Ratings are Appreciated Check this 1 out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edzg7Fa2bs0&list;=UUoFF4xab24EH2YUo2MtinjQ&feature;=c4-overview
A song that I like much, extracted of the new album of Evanescence, The Open Door.
Read about Nirvana's 1992 performance at Reading here: https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/reading-nirvana/ Listen to more from Nirvana: https://Nirvana.lnk.to/essentials Subscribe for more videos: https://goo.gl/DS7Geg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Nirvana/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nirvana Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nirvana.official.band/ Website and store: https://www.nirvana.com Music video by Nirvana performing Lithium. (C) 2009 Geffen Records #Nirvana #Lithium #Vevo
Music video by Nirvana performing Lithium (Live And Loud, Seattle / 1993). © 2013 UMG Recordings, Inc. http://vevo.ly/8VJA4b
Please note that this video was made solely for demonstration purposes! Do not attempt to repeat the experiments shown in this video! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thoisoi2 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Thoisoi?ty=h Music: http://audiomicro.com Interesting chemical experiments: http://www.m.chemicum.com/ So today, I will tell you about the lightest metal on Earth - Lithium. Lithium is in the first group in the periodic table of chemical elements. Except for the smallest atomic mass, lithium has the lowest density of all metals, which is nearly 2 times lower than that of water. In appearance, lithium represents a shiny metal, which can be cut with a knife, but it would be required to exert sufficient force to achieve that. Lithium rapidly oxidizes in air, and while that is happening...
The metal lithium has become integral to our daily lives, due to its essential role as a battery material in electronic devices. Over the next several decades, the rising popularity of electric vehicles is expected to mean the demand for lithium will increase even more -- so companies that mine the metal are racing to improve their productivity. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6 Follow us: Facebook: http://www.pbs.org/newshour Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/newshour Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/newshour Snapchat: @pbsnews Subscribe: PBS NewsHour podcasts: https://www.pbs.org/newshour...
Lithium makes up only 0.002% of the Earth's crust, but has become a major component of technology and industry. Find out about the chemical properties of lithium, how those properties allow lithium to be versatile, and which countries are home to the world's largest supply of lithium. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe #NationalGeographic #Lithium #Educational About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories that matter and past the edge of what's possible. Get More National Geographic: Official Site: http://bit.ly/NatGeoOfficialSite Facebook: http://bit.ly/FBNatGeo Twitter: http://bit.l...
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Lithium (from Greek: λίθος lithos, "stone") is a chemical element with the symbol Li and atomic number 3. It is a soft, silver-white metal belonging to the alkali metal group of chemical elements. Under standard conditions it is the lightest metal and the least dense solid element. Like all alkali metals, lithium is highly reactive and flammable. For this reason, it is typically stored in mineral oil. When cut open, it exhibits a metallic luster, but contact with moist air corrodes the surface quickly to a dull silvery gray, then black tarnish. Because of its high reactivity, lithium never occurs freely in nature, and instead, only appears in compounds, which are usually ionic. Lithium occurs in a number of pegmatitic minerals, but due to its solubility as an ion, is present in ocean water and is commonly obtained from brines and clays. On a commercial scale, lithium is isolated electrolytically from a mixture of lithium chloride and potassium chloride.
The nuclei of lithium verge on instability, since the two stable lithium isotopes found in nature have among the lowest binding energies per nucleon of all stable nuclides. Because of its relative nuclear instability, lithium is less common in the solar system than 25 of the first 32 chemical elements even though the nuclei are very light in atomic weight. For related reasons, lithium has important links to nuclear physics. The transmutation of lithium atoms to helium in 1932 was the first fully man-made nuclear reaction, and lithium-6 deuteride serves as a fusion fuel in staged thermonuclear weapons.