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General nuclear constraints are used to show that deuterium is most likely of pregalactic origin. Big-bang nucleosynthesis is the most plausible source for significant amounts of this isotope, but other, more speculative, sources are not ruled out.
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Epstein, R., Lattimer, J. & Schramm, D. The origin of deuterium. Nature 263, 198–202 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/263198a0
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