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Lithium hydride is an inorganic compound with the formula LiH. This alkali metal hydride is a colorless solid, although commercial samples are grey. Characteristic of a salt-like (ionic) hydride, it has a high melting point, and it is not soluble but reactive with all protic organic solvents. It is soluble and nonreactive with certain molten salts such as lithium fluoride, lithium borohydride, and sodium hydride. With a molecular mass of slightly less than 8.0, it is the lightest ionic compound.
Lithium hydride Applications
Hydrogen storage and fuel
With a hydrogen content in proportion to its mass three times that of NaH, LiH has the highest hydrogen content of any hydride. LiH is periodically of interest for hydrogen storage, but applications have been thwarted by its stability to decomposition. Thus removal of H2 requires temperatures above the 700 °C used for its synthesis, such temperatures are expensive to create and maintain. The compound was once tested as a fuel component in a model rocket.
In nuclear chemistry and physics
Lithium hydride (LiH) is sometimes a desirable material for the shielding of nuclear reactors, with the isotope lithium-7 (Li-7), and it can be fabricated by casting.
Lithium hydride is used as a reducing and condensation agent in an organic reaction.it converts acid chlorides to aldehydes.it also is used in several other organic syntheses, and to prepare lithium aluminum hydride. Lithium hydride also is used as a portable source of hydrogen and preparing many lithium salts.it also used for storing thermal energy for space power stations.
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