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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lithium hydride is the inorganic compound with the formula LiH. It is a colorless solid, although commercial samples are gray. Characteristic of a salt-like, or ionic, hydride, it has a high melting point and is not soluble in any solvent with which it does not react. With a molecular mass of slightly less than 8, it is the lightest ionic compound.