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Line 93: ===Higher than expected lithium in metal-poor stars=== Certain metal-poor stars also contain an abnormally high concentration of lithium.<ref name="high">{{cite journal \|doi=10.3847/2041-8213/aaa438\|title=Enormous Li Enhancement Preceding Red Giant Phases in Low-mass Stars in the Milky Way Halo\|journal=The Astrophysical Journal\|volume=852\|issue=2\|pages=L31\|year=2018\|last1=Li\|first1=H. \|last2=Aoki\|first2=W. \|last3=Matsuno\|first3=T. \|last4=Kumar\|first4=Y. Bharat\|last5=Shi\|first5=J. \|last6=Suda\|first6=T. \|last7=Zhao\|first7=G. \|last8=Zhao\|first8=G.\|bibcode=2018ApJ...852L..31L\|arxiv=1801.00090\|s2cid=54205417 \|doi-access=free }}</ref> These ~~metal-poor~~ stars ~~that were found to have a higher than usual concentration of lithium~~ tended to orbit massive objects—neutron stars or black holes—whose gravity evidently pulls heavier lithium to the surface of a hydrogen-helium star, causing more lithium to be observed.<ref name=emsley>{{Cite book\|last=Emsley \|first=J. \|title=Nature's Building Blocks \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|___location=Oxford\|date=2001 \|isbn=978-0-19-850341-5}}</ref> ==Proposed solutions==

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