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Re: Lithium Sunlight?

On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, W. Barlow Newbolt wrote:

I fail to see how there could be any lithium in sunlight! We could be
talking cosmic rays here, or vanAllen particles, or something, but these
are not likely to reach the ground.
Barlow Newbolt


Could this refer to emission lines for Li appearing in the solar spectrum?
(Do they? I think this is true of some stars.)

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