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Why lithium carbonate is not stable to heat?

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Lithium being small in size polarses a large`CO_3^(2-)` ion leading to the formation of more stable `Li_2O` and `CO_2` on heating, due to this tendency of lithium, lithium carbonate is not stalbe.
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