Glossary · term
Big Bang nucleosynthesis
Cosmology
- Aliases
- nucleosynthesis, primordial
- Domain
- Cosmology
Definition
The first few minutes, when the universe was hot enough to fuse protons and neutrons into helium and traces of lithium; the predicted 24 % helium by mass is what we see.
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