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Nature 442, 636-637 (10 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/442636a; Published online 9 August 2006

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Cosmology: Where all the lithium went

Corinne Charbonnel1

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For some years, astronomers have been trying to track down all the lithium predicted by standard cosmological models. Spectroscopic dissection of globular clusters reveals that the answer might lie in the stars.

Cosmologists have a problem. They have highly precise models of how light elements were synthesized in the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang.

  1. Corinne Charbonnel is at the Observatoire de Genève, 51 chemin des Maillettes, 1290 Sauverny, Switzerland, and the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (CNRS UMR 5572), Toulouse, France.
    Email: Corinne.Charbonnel@obs.unige.ch

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