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I feel like you could ask your local high schools chemistry teacher what metals you should test for after a lithium fire
Most soil testing services offer a panel via mass spec. It's like $100 per sample. The health official deserves to get hung from the flagpole by their underpants and/or assigned to a different job.
Didn't mean to counter your comment, just meant that even If I were to run with the premise of "how ever should we know what to test for after a lithium fire!?" - stupid as it may be - that still seems easily solved by calling Mr. Meyers from the Salad Bowl Highschool (go greens!)
I'm a different user! Didn't mean to argue, either, just wanted to add some emphasis. Go greens!
The SAME society that has deemed me and many young people “unemployable” because…well no reason actually are the same groups of idiots that are too stupid to test anything.
“Oopsie daisy! We messed up! SO QUIRKY AMIRIGHT!?!?!?”
I swear, I feel my Reddit atheist particles surge every day.
At least one answer to the question is in the question.
It's not as accurate as mass spec but generally speaking you can test for geavy metals using certain acid and color changing indicators (in known concentrations) over a range of sample dilutions. Even better if you have a reference sample of a known concentration of the target, like manganese. Sometimes the chemical is not itself an acid but nevertheless reacts with the target.
For example, high concentrations of manganese will react with peeiodate to make a red/broan color. You can buy a set of 100 pouches of periodate for manganese testing on Amazon for $50.