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Lithium carbonate commodity commodity

Lithium carbonate (Li2CO3) supplied as a manufactured chemical commodity. This product family is distinct from elemental lithium, lithium-bearing brines and ores, and other lithium salts. Albemarle describes separate technical, battery and pharmaceutical product grades; grade names do not make every lithium carbonate lot interchangeable. Its dated product 401125 technical sheet specifies at least 99.0% Li2CO3 and lists cathode manufacture among its applications, illustrating why a battery-related use alone does not establish a universal battery-grade threshold. That supplier-specific assay is not the definition of this whole family. SAMR separately registers YS/T 582-2023 for battery-grade lithium carbonate, but its complete technical tables were not inspected. No criticality designation, microbial production or qualified recovered-product yield is asserted here.

Sources & References

  1. albemarle-carbonate: Albemarle, Lithium Carbonate product-family page: technical, battery and pharmaceutical grades; accessed version
    https://www.albemarle.com/us/en/what-we-offer/featured-products/lithium-carbonate (accessed 2026-10-11)
  2. albemarle-401125: Albemarle, Lithium Carbonate, technical grade, min. 99.0%, milled below 40 micrometres, product 401125, technical data sheet issued 15 February 2018, pp. 1-3; formula, applications and supplier-specific specification
    https://www.albemarle.com/sites/default/files/documents/T401125.PDF (accessed 2026-10-11)
  3. samr-582: SAMR national standards information platform, YS/T 582-2023, Battery grade lithium carbonate: registry identity and scope only; technical standard content not inspected
    https://std.samr.gov.cn/hb/search/stdHBDetailed?id=1C51E7879EF6D54EE06397BE0A0A1DC6 (accessed 2026-10-11)

Curation History

Timestamp Curator Action Summary
2026-10-11T09:26:18Z codex (GPT-6; codex) CREATE Created an evidence-backed lithium-carbonate commodity record with explicit product boundaries and no inherited criticality or mechanism.

Record source: data/records/lithium-carbonate.yaml