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The amount of lithium generated in the Big Bang can be calculated.<ref>{{cite journal | bibcode= 1985ARA&A..23..319B | title= Big bang nucleosynthesis – Theories and observations | last1= Boesgaard | first1=A. M. | last2= Steigman | first2= G. | volume= 23 |date= 1985 | pages= 319–378 | journal= Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics |id=A86-14507 04–90 |___location=Palo Alto, CA | doi= 10.1146/annurev.aa.23.090185.001535}}</ref>
 
Models of the collisions that would have occurred found that there would have been one helium atom for every ten hydrogen atoms, which fitsagrees with the observations of young stars.<ref name="habitable">{{cite book |isbn=978-0691140063|title=How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind|last1=Langmuir|first1=Charles Herbert|last2=Broecker|first2=Wallace S.|year=2012}}</ref>
 
[[File:Stable nuclides H to B.png|thumb|center|800px|Stable nuclides H to B]]