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Old 17th March 2008 | 21:07
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chris weston
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Lithium compounds

I'm pretty sure its Lithium Peroxide not Hydroxide that's used as the peroxide scrubs to the carbonate and oxygen in 2:1 redox stoichiometry.

The Hydroxide simply neutralises to the carbonate.

Forgive the lack of subscripts and yes I know it's ionic really but it goes like this

2Li2O2 + 2CO2 = 2Li2CO3 + O2

cf

Li(OH)2 + CO2 = LiCO3 + H2O


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