Here’s a little Jeopardy trivia for you beneath the category of MINERALS and Lithium Stocks . This soft, silver-coloured,  reacts with water "it explodes", and is also magnetic and is actually found in brine, and also igneous rock.  . Discovered in 1817 by Swedish chemist Johan Artwedson, who isolated it as a salt, it was a 7-Up soft drink ingredient until 1950 and is today a common pharmaceutical prescribed to treat mental illnesses such as depression and bi-polar disorder.

It is used in air conditioning and industrial drying systems, is caustic, poses a gamble to unborn and breastfed babies and is in many batteries, ceramics, lubricating greases, optical glass and thermonuclear weapons.

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