Since I've been collecting dead lithium ion phone batteries over the last few years, the time has come to try to extract the lithium from them. I've collected over 160 Wh worth of battery capacity over that time, which should contain at least 12g of lithium content overall
Initially, we extract the electrode materials and attempt to dissolve them in nitric acid, for the purpose of decomposing these nitrate salts later on, but things don't quite go as planned for any stage of the extraction. In the end, the only thing we obtain is decomposed electrode materials, which we'll have to extract the lithium from in a future video by a different method.