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Literaturna misal

Literaturna misal (Литературна мисъл, "Literary Thought") is a peer-reviewed Bulgarian academic journal of literary theory, history, criticism, and comparative literature, published in Sofia by the Institute for Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences since 1957.

Literaturna Ukraina

Literaturna Ukraina (Літературна Україна, "Literary Ukraine") is a Ukrainian weekly literary and artistic newspaper founded in Kyiv in 1927, now the organ of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine.

Literaturnaya Gazeta

Literaturnaya Gazeta, the Russian weekly newspaper of literature, culture, and public affairs, was founded in Moscow in 1929 with Maxim Gorky's involvement and became one of the Soviet Union's most authoritative publications.

Literaturnaya Rossiya

Literaturnaya Rossiya (Литературная Россия) is a Russian weekly literary newspaper founded in 1958 as Literatura i zhizn, renamed in 1963, and now an online portal.

Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk

Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk (Літературно-науковий вістник), or Literary Scientific Herald, was the leading Ukrainian monthly literary and scientific journal, published in Lviv and Kyiv from 1898 to 1932 under Mykhailo Hrushevsky.

Literaturnoe Nasledstvo

Literaturnoe Nasledstvo (Литературное наследство, Literary Heritage) is a Russian academic book series, founded in 1931 on Isaak Zilbershtein's initiative, that publishes previously unpublished documents on Russian literature and social thought.

Literaturny Kritik

Literaturny Kritik (Литературный критик, "The Literary Critic") was a Soviet monthly journal of literary theory and criticism, published in Moscow from 1933 to 1940 and regarded as the leading intellectual periodical of its decade.

Literaturuli Sakartvelo

Literaturuli Sakartvelo (ლიტერატურული საქართველო, "Literary Georgia") is a Georgian-language weekly literary newspaper founded in Tbilisi in November 1931, first the organ of the Georgian Writers' Union and independent after 1991.

Liternum

Liternum, Roman maritime colony founded 194 BC near Lago Patria, 8 km north of Cumae in Campania; one of five coloniae civium romanorum, retirement place and tomb of Scipio Africanus (died 183 BC), with forum, capitolium, basilica, odeion, amphitheater, and Egyptian blue glass production.

Literotica

Literotica (literotica.com) is a free erotic fiction site launched November 21, 1998, owned by Sunlane Media, hosting over 1.5 million user-submitted stories in 32 categories with about 45 million monthly visits.

LiteRT

LiteRT, formerly TensorFlow Lite, is Google's open-source runtime for on-device machine learning inference, renamed in 2024; it has powered ML in over 100,000 apps on 2.7 billion devices.

Litgrid

Litgrid AB is the electricity transmission system operator of Lithuania, which led the Baltic synchronisation with the Continental European grid, switched in February 2025 and completed in November 2025.

Lithacoceras

Lithacoceras is an extinct genus of large perisphinctid ammonites established by Alpheus Hyatt in 1900, known from Europe, Argentina, and Japan, with its species serving as index fossils for the Late Kimmeridgian.

Lithai

Lithai (ลิไทย), also known as Phaya Lithai, was a king of the Sukhothai kingdom in Thailand who reigned from 1347 and composed the Traiphum Phra Ruang.

Lithe (singer)

Lithe (Josiah Ramel) is a Melbourne-based Australian rapper, singer, and producer of dark hip-hop, R&B, and trap; viral 2024 hit "Fall Back," 2024 Unearthed J Award winner, debut album Euphoria (2025).

Lithgow, New South Wales

Lithgow, New South Wales: Central West NSW town west of the Blue Mountains, named 1827 for William Lithgow. Coal and railway town from 1869; first Australian steel by 1900; LGA population 20,740.

Lithia Motors

Lithia Motors, doing business as Lithia & Driveway, is an American franchised auto retailer founded in 1946, headquartered in Medford, Oregon, with 467 locations and $37.63 billion in 2025 revenue.

Lithiated graphite anode

A lithiated graphite anode is a lithium-ion battery negative electrode pre-loaded with lithium ions up to LiC6, compensating the lithium irreversibly consumed when the SEI forms.

Lithiated silicon oxide

Lithiated silicon oxide is silicon suboxide (SiOx) battery anode material after reacting with lithium, forming lithium oxide and silicate phases that buffer silicon's volume change.

Lithic analysis

Lithic analysis is the archaeological study of stone artifacts, examining how they were manufactured, used, and modified to infer past human behavior, producing typological, technological, and functional interpretations.

Lithification

Lithification is the conversion of loose sediment into solid sedimentary rock, typically through compaction and cementation by minerals from pore waters, forming rocks such as sandstone and limestone.

Lithinos Pyrgos

Lithinos Pyrgos (Stone Tower, λίθινος πύργος, Turris Lapidea) was Ptolemy's Silk Road landmark en route to the Seres, at 135°E 43°N; candidates include Tashkurgan and Daraut-Kurgan.

Lithium

Lithium (Li, atomic number 3) is the lightest metal and first alkali metal, discovered in 1817, whose main use is rechargeable batteries, especially for electric vehicles.

Lithium (medication)

Lithium (lithium carbonate/citrate), first-line mood stabilizer for bipolar disorder maintenance; serum target 0.6–0.8 mEq/L, toxicity from ~1.2–1.5 mEq/L, reduces suicide risk, causes hypothyroidism and CKD, underused in North America.

Lithium (Nirvana song)

Lithium is a 1991 Nirvana song by Kurt Cobain, the third single from Nevermind, named after the bipolar medication. Recorded at Sound City with Butch Vig, it peaked at number 64 in the US and number 11 in the UK.

Lithium aluminium hydride

Lithium aluminum hydride, abbreviated LAH, is an inorganic compound with the formula LiAlH₄, a white crystalline powder and one of the strongest hydride reducing agents in organic synthesis.

Lithium aluminum germanium phosphate

LAGP, or lithium aluminum germanium phosphate, is a NASICON-type oxide solid electrolyte for all-solid-state lithium batteries. It conducts lithium ions at room temperature and is stable in air and water.

Lithium Americas Corp

Lithium Americas Corp is a Canadian-incorporated lithium development company whose principal asset is Thacker Pass, a sedimentary claystone lithium deposit in the McDermitt Caldera, Humboldt County, Nevada.

Lithium Argentina

Lithium Argentina AG is a Swiss-domiciled resource company, formed in 2025 from Lithium Americas, that holds 44.8% of the Cauchari-Olaroz lithium brine operation in Jujuy, Argentina.

Lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide

Lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide, or LiFSI, is a lithium salt used in lithium-ion battery electrolytes, offering high conductivity, thermal stability, and longer cycle life than LiPF₆, though it can corrode aluminum current collectors at high voltage.