Lithium-ion battery or Li-ion battery is abbreviated as LIB. This is a type of rechargeable battery first proposed by chemist M Stanley Whittingham at Exxon in the 1970s.
Batteries are very useful, but when they are spent, they can be very harmful to the environment. A single mercury battery could contaminate up to 600,000 liters of water.
One of the greatest inventions of the 20th century is that of the lithium-ion battery. It has been of inestimable value in earth cause to search for a renewable source of energy, and reduce the consumption of fuel on a global scale.