noun
definition
Lithium oxide, Li2O, used in the manufacture of ceramics and glass.
Examples of lithia in a Sentence
Large quantities of mineral water, sulphur, chalybeate and lithia, bottled at Meridian, Raymond and elsewhere, are sold annually.
Mineral waters (especially lithia) are bottled in and near the city.
There are sulphur, lithia and other springs near the city, and an ostrich farm and an alligator farm in the suburbs.
During an attack of acute gout nothing relieves so much as colchicum, but during the intervals potash or lithia salts taken in water are advisable, as tending to prevent the deposits of urate of soda.
It is only found in combination, and is a constituent of the minerals petalite, triphyline, spodumene and lepidolite or lithia mica.
One of the springs gives off carbonic acid gas and another contains a considerable proportion of lithia salts.