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Production of heavy elements in nature

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We shall describe here a possible mechanism for the production of heavy elements (with A > 60): these elements, we suggest, may be formed in the matter ejected from the envelope of a neutron star during the starquake process.

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    Present address: JINR Dubna, Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, Moscow, Box 79

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  1. Institute of Applied Mathematics, Academy of Science, Moscow, USSR

    V. M. CHECHOTKIN

  2. Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, Poland

    M. KOWALSKI

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CHECHOTKIN, V., KOWALSKI, M. Production of heavy elements in nature. Nature 259, 643–644 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/259643a0

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