We investigate the metallicity of the broad line region (BLR) of a sample of 30 quasars in the redshift range 4 6 quasars. The latter result is puzzling, since the minimum enrichment timescale of carbon is about 1 Gyr, i.e. longer than the age of the universe at z~6.
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Maiolino, R., Marconi, A., Salvati, M., Risaliti, G., Severgnini, P., Oliva, E., … Vanzi, L. (2001). Dust in active nuclei. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 365(2), 28–36. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20000177
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