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How To Get Lithium Metal From an Energizer Battery

submitted by mintbbb

1 decade 1 year 1 month 2 weeks ago

Not that you should be doing this, but.. If yoiu do, be careful!

YouTube Description:

We show you how to get Lithium Metal from an Energizer Ultimate Lithium battery.

Warning: This should be done outside or in a fumehood due to the toxic gases that may be formed under certain conditions. Gloves must be worn as the chemicals and lithium are corrosive.

There are a great many types of lithium batteries and the particular chemistry of interest is "lithium iron disulfide" batteries which contain pure lithium metal and less toxic electrolyte than other batteries. Lithium ion batteries do not contain lithium metal (just lithium ions) and other pure metal lithium batteries often contain incredibly toxic electrolyte that make them too dangerous for the average person to safely open.

It just so happens that the popular Energizer Ultimate Lithium batteries are based on lithium iron disulfide chemistry making them the ideal choice for the home chemist to obtain lithium.