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strabad t1_itjj3fh wrote

Reply to comment by cptnobveus in All the Metals We Mined in 2021 in One Visualization by CronicChaos84

One part of it seeming strange is how freakishly light lithium is, as this info graphic is measured in tonnes, it skews the perspective. That much lithium is 7 million cubic feet in volume.

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fiendishrabbit t1_itjw3d7 wrote

Which would be about 200000 cubic meters.

Lithium weighs just 530 kg per cubic meter. Which means if you coated lithium with a polymer (to avoid the very intense reaction lithium has with water) it would easily float.

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Emergency-Wave-5335 t1_itk8vf4 wrote

I need this in football fields or bananas

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fiendishrabbit t1_itko84i wrote

If we stacked all of the lithium mined in 2021 in a single american football field the resulting cuboid would be about as tall as a 4 story building.

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