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Number of stock issued on warrant exercises during the period.

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Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=109259400&loc=d3e21475-112644

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Number of warrants or rights outstanding.

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Warrants - Summary (Details) - $ / shares	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
Warrants - Summary (Details) - $ / shares	Sep. 30, 2020	Sep. 30, 2019	Sep. 30, 2020	Sep. 30, 2019
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Number of warrants outstanding (shares)	9,092,873		9,092,873
Warrants exercised via cashless exercises (shares)	0	725,008	600,006	2,125,033
Common stock issued from exercise of warrants (shares)		725,000	600,000	2,125,000
January 11, 2017 Warrants
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Exercise price of warrants (USD per share)	$ 0.001		$ 0.001
Number of warrants outstanding (shares)	4,533,224		4,533,224
November 20, 2017 Warrants
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Exercise price of warrants (USD per share)	$ 0.001		$ 0.001
Number of warrants outstanding (shares)	4,137,999		4,137,999
June 11, 2018 Warrants
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Exercise price of warrants (USD per share)	$ 0.001		$ 0.001
Number of warrants outstanding (shares)	421,650		421,650