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Could sodium replace lithium as the dominant ingredient in batteries? (techxplore.com)
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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

It's actually used as a human drug for bipolar disorder.

So, not really comparable to arsenic or even lead, but also not harmless to ingest uncontrolled.