Talk:Lithium/@comment-99.47.201.118-20161007183151/@comment-24.7.10.182-20161229052648

I'm a little late to the party, but it isnt even about how lithium is affected by water. It's about how that material forms. Minerals came before water when the Earth was formed and cooled down from being a giant ball of magma to a rock. Pressure made the materials form, and in different ways. I'll tell you here that crystals and minerals are not at all the same - minerals are in a state where there is no clear pattern, usually in a vein. Crystals form differently, and this solid state makes it so it fits that environment. Materials under solid materials dont have to alter because they are in their original, untouched state.

This is probably incorrect, but I'll just skinny it out like this:

Minerals are different from crystals. Crystals can resist what their environment may do to that material.