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Old September 30th, 2005, 03:02 PM
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Default Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

According a Wikipedia article, right after the Big Bang there was about 74% hydrogen-1, 1% hydrogen-2, 25% helium-4, and trace amounts of lithium and beryllium. Nucleosynthesis stopped there because there are no stable 8-nucleon elements (2 x helium-4) and there was insufficient time for many triple-alpha collisions (3 x helium-4).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis
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