Sentence examples for used lithium from inspiring English sources

When Judge William Bryson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit asked Myriad's attorney Greg Castanias if that meant that simply getting an element out of the ground ought to be considered an invention — he used lithium as an example, but he could have chosen anything from the periodic table of elements — Myriad's lawyer said yes.

From July to December 2004, the court papers say, Ms. Murphy accepted "several pieces of gold jewelry" worth $9,000 from the owners of the company in exchange for ensuring that they received lucrative contracts for things like removing contaminated soil and storing used lithium batteries.

The one-carbon elongation of aldoses to ketoses in these cases used lithium reagent for the key homologation step.

We used lithium as a dopant because it has comparable conductivity (2.25 × 10−6 S/cm) compared to ZnO.

A survey of UK psychiatrists showed that only 12% of them have used lithium augmentation as first choice after the use of an antidepressant (Shergill and Katona 1997).

The control group consisted of 15 patients with bipolar disorder who had never used lithium and from whom a serum calcium measurement was available.

The first commercial lithium-ion battery, launched by Sony in 1991, was a rocking-chair design that used lithium-cobalt-oxide for the positive electrode, and graphite (carbon) for the negative one.Charging the battery causes lithium ions to move out of the cobalt-oxide lattice and slip between the sheets of carbon atoms in the graphite electrode a state of higher potential energy.

A device that could store more power in the same amount of weight as widely used lithium-ion cells could, for instance, allow smartphones to run for weeks on a single charge or an electric car to be driven non-stop for hundreds of kilometres.

The battery is the result of decades of research and development: Nissan first used lithium-ion batteries in the prototype Prairie Joy EV of 1996.

Currently widely used lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) employ flammable and toxic organic solvents and expensive lithium-containing compounds, and thus present two major issues of safety and cost and find limits in large-scale applications.

"All these vehicles use lithium ion," Ted Miller, a Ford senior manager, told me.