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The Skeptics Guide #886 - Jul 2 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Is Lithium a Rare Earth Metal?

Lithium is not a rare earth metal. The world right now, we're using a hundred and 60 thousand tons a year of lithium. So here's my question for you, cara: How much litium is in the world's oceans? And you can express that in number of years lithium has been fully dissolved. We could do that for a thousand years and only use one % of the lithium in the oceans,. which would be nothing.

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