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Where is all the lithium?
by xbar 6y ago
Where is all the lithium?
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- gorkish 6y agoBig Bang fusion apparently produces mainly Li-7 which decays to He. There is still a perceived problem with the abundance of Li, Be, and B though when you go charting the observed abundance of all elements. But if the Lithium all decayed, why isn't there more Helium?
- newsclues 6y agoHelium in stars(current and past) doesn’t account for it?
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoThat may be kind of hard to tell. Stars create helium, by fusing hydrogen. That makes it hard to tell how much helium the star started with. (Or so I suspect - I'm not an astronomer.) It's kind of like, in a dynamite factory, trying to tell if there's any dynamite left over from when they blasted to make a hole for the foundations.