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Article Contents
1 The lithium paradigm
2 The "Lithium plateau debate''?
3 Sample selection: a critical analysis of the literature
4 Stellar parameters: I. Gravity, metallicity, and microturbulence
5 Stellar parameters. II. The temperature scale and its weaknesses
6 Our final choice: temperature and data-sample(s)
7 The lithium abundance
8 Preliminary results on the mean lithium abundance and the dispersion
9 Evolutionary status of the stars
10 The lithium abundance along the plateau for the dwarf stars
11 The lithium abundance in evolved stars
12 Duplicity and variability
13 Stars with extreme Li abundances
14 Implications for stellar structure and evolution
15 Summary and conclusions
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