Answer by ProfRob for Why is Big Bang Nucleosynthesis favored over Stellar...
Deuterium and lithium are generally destroyed by nuclear reactions inside stars. They fuse at lower temperatures (about $10^6$ K and $3\times 10^6$ K for D and 7Li respectively) than the $>10^7$ K...
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We know that a hot soup of plasma as it cools (as space expands) can produce light elements if the baryon-photon ratio is just right and the space expands quickly enough so that the neutrons and...
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