#Bestof2022: 2/2: #Lithium: It comes from binary systems going nova. Ken Croswell, Sky & Telescope
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🗓️ 27 December 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's Kate here. Now from nursery drop-offs to after-school clubs, there is always |
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| 0:21.0 | I hope you'll love it as much as I do. |
| 0:23.0 | Eff and if active makes fashion sense, available of the lives of stars and we're talking |
| 0:40.2 | about the origin of lithium. Why is that important? It's called white gold. It's |
| 0:46.0 | extremely valuable, but it turned into the lithium ion batteries that power the |
| 0:51.4 | Tesla's and all of the other electric vehicles that are coming for the next century |
| 0:55.0 | as we move away from fossil fuel generated engines. |
| 1:00.0 | However, I learned from Ken that it wasn't until recently that anybody had observed lithium actually |
| 1:05.9 | being made in Novi. |
| 1:07.4 | How did they do it, Ken? |
| 1:08.6 | Well, this is what's very interesting. |
| 1:11.2 | The theory was worked out. |
| 1:12.4 | We were just talking about the theory of lithium production in Novi. |
| 1:16.2 | That was worked out in the 1970s, |
| 1:18.0 | and a prediction was made that Novi should be major producers of lithium in the galaxy and here on Earth. But nobody |
| 1:26.4 | actually had seen any lithium arising in a novo and even though people did go |
| 1:32.1 | out and look for this, they never found it. |
| 1:35.8 | And then in 2013, everything changed when two different astronomical teams and two different |
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