Lithium burning
Process which lithium is spent in a star / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For combustion of lithium, see Lithium § Chemistry.
Lithium burning is a nucleosynthetic process in which lithium is depleted in a star. Lithium is generally present in brown dwarfs and not in older low-mass stars. Stars, which by definition must achieve the high temperature (2.5 × 106 K) necessary for fusing hydrogen, rapidly deplete their lithium.
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