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Deuterium in the Universe

All the heavy hydrogen in space may have been made in the first 15 minutes after the "big bang". Observations leading to estimates of its abundance thus provide evidence on conditions at that time

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Jay M. Pasachoff is an astronomer at Williams College. He is chair of the Working Group on Solar Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union. His work is funded by the National Geographic Society and the National Science Foundation.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 230 Issue 5This article was originally published with the title “Deuterium in the Universe” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 230 No. 5 (), p. 108
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0574-108