deuterium bottleneck

English

Noun

deuterium bottleneck

  1. (cosmology) A critical stage in the early universe's nucleosynthesis process, in which the temperature was high enough for many photons to have energy greater than the binding energy of deuterium; therefore any deuterium that was formed was immediately destroyed.
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