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Lithium depletion boundary

Lithium depletion boundary

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The lithium depletion boundary (LDB) technique is a method proposed for dating open clusters based on a determination of the lithium abundances of a cluster's stars whose masses are at about the hydrogen burning mass limit.[1]

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    Darling, David. 2004. The Universal Book of Astronomy.


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