7-Up’s original name was Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda. It was because it included lithium salts.
Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-21-19
Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-21-19
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7-Up’s original name was Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda. It was because it included lithium salts.
“However, the team over at Periodic Videos recently decided to test what would happen if they tried to add lithium back into 7-Up. In the clip, Sir Martyn Poliakoff, a chemistry professor at the University of Nottingham, explains what happened when his colleagues placed a piece of lithium inside a beaker containing the beverage. The mixture quickly began to heat up, boil, and change color, finally resulting in a black alkaline goo.”
Did they really think that dropping a piece of lithium into a glass of 7-Up reproduces the method to make the soft drink, when lithium salts were still an ingredient?
If you like in the UK and your kid wants to get a chemistry degree, I’d tell him to avoid the University of Nottingham.