deuterium bottleneck

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What does deuterium bottleneck mean?

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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