Lithium isotopes provide a fingerprint of recycled material in Earth's upper mantle. But this fingerprint is different from what had been expected. So do we need to reassess our ideas about how the upper mantle evolves?
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Widom, E. Lost lithium found. Nature 443, 516–517 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/443516a
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