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How is the primordial abundance of Lithium measured?

I was reading about the "Lithium problem" and I came across this Physics SE post: Discrepancy problem in lithium? The answer mentioned On the other hand, measurements of the $\rm Li$ abundance ...
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Fisher Forecasting For EUCLID Experiment Help [closed]

I'm trying to recreate the results of this paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08016 to obtain the constraints for the matter density and hubble constant h. However every time I try to create there ...
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Any method to determine the gravitational constant $G$ from observations in cosmological scale?

By the observations in cosmological scale, I mean observations by astrophysicists like motions of quasars in far distance from us, relative motions of our galaxy to others, etc. I know the famous ...
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How was hydrogen gas (H) obtained by spectroscopists? Why is there more H than H2 in space?

Introductory quantum mechanics lessons talk about emission and absorption spectra for the hydrogen gas, and then give you an explanation as if this gas were pure $H$ atoms, and not the $H_2$ molecule (...
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