Editing Lithium (section)

=== Silicon nano-welding ===
Lithium has been found effective in assisting the perfection of silicon nano-welds in electronic components for electric batteries and other devices.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Karki |first1=Khim |last2=Epstein |first2=Eric |last3=Cho |first3=Jeong-Hyun |last4=Jia |first4=Zheng |last5=Li |first5=Teng |last6=Picraux |first6=S. Tom |last7=Wang |first7=Chunsheng |last8=Cumings |first8=John |title=Lithium-Assisted Electrochemical Welding in Silicon Nanowire Battery Electrodes |journal=Nano Letters |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=1392–7 |year=2012 |pmid=22339576 |doi=10.1021/nl204063u |bibcode=2012NanoL..12.1392K |url=http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~lit/publications/TengLi-Pub43-NL-2012.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810065805/http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~lit/publications/TengLi-Pub43-NL-2012.pdf |archive-date=10 August 2017}}</ref>

[[File:FlammenfärbungLi.png|thumb|upright=0.4|Lithium is used in flares and [[pyrotechnics]] is due to its rose-red flame.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Koch |first1=Ernst-Christian |title=Special Materials in Pyrotechnics: III. Application of Lithium and its Compounds in Energetic Systems |journal=Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics |volume=29 |issue=2 |year=2004 |pages=67–80 |doi=10.1002/prep.200400032}}</ref>]]