Lithium is element 3, an alkali metal of the s block, in group 1, period 2. Its ground-state configuration is [He] 2s1, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 1.
It was discovered in 1817, by Arfvedson.
Name origin: the Greek lithos, 'stone'.
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