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To: Erik Latranyi

Question to anyone...

Was all the lithium in the universe created during the Big Bang?

Or - is some lithium still being produced inside stars at various stages of star birth-life-death?

Thanks!


14 posted on 10/20/2019 3:45:31 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

All but two of the lithium isotopes are radioactive with very short half-lives. They transform almost as soon as they are created.


16 posted on 10/20/2019 3:56:48 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: zeestephen

Probably.

There is no certainty where the universe is concerned but it is probable that in the chaos of star stuff some lithium is forming

A corollary question is when the earth is sucked into the black hole, will lithium be destroyed despite the law of Conservation of Mass


18 posted on 10/20/2019 3:57:17 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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