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Why is it believed that lithium was present along Hydrogen and Helium already at first?
How fast did this process happen?
The process of nucleosynthesis, or the formation of atomic nuclei, happened very quickly in the early universe. Within just a few minutes after the Big Bang, the abundance of lithium, as well as other light elements like helium and deuterium, had already reached their peak values.