Cosmological lithium problem: Difference between revisions

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[[File:Nova Centauri 2013 ESO.jpg|thumb|[[Nova Centauri 2013]] is the first in which evidence of lithium has been found.<ref>{{cite web|title=First Detection of Lithium from an Exploding Star|url=http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1531/|accessdate=29 July 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801001700/http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1531/|archivedate=1 August 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref>]]

Lithium is also found in [[brown dwarf]] substellar objects and certain anomalous orange stars. Because lithium is present in cooler, less massive brown dwarfs, but is destroyed in hotter [[red dwarf]] stars, its presence in the stars' spectra can be used in the "lithium test" to differentiate the two, as both are smaller than the Sun.<ref name=emsley/><ref name="Cain"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-int.stsci.edu/~inr/ldwarf3.html |archive-url=https://archive.istoday/20130521055905/http://www-int.stsci.edu/~inr/ldwarf3.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 May 2013 |title=L Dwarf Classification|accessdate=6 March 2013 | first =N. | last = Reid | date = 10 March 2002}}</ref>

===Less lithium in Sun-like stars with planets===