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Re:Physicists may now have a way to make element 120 by WantonQuantum on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @07:49PM (#41063430)
Interestingly, neutron stars do contain a small percentage of protons.
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Re:Physicists may now have a way to make element 120 by adrian_b on Thursday July 25, 2024 @02:04AM (#41065189)
However, those protons are not stable.

Their concentration is the result of the equilibrium between neutrons that decay into proton and electron pairs and proton-electron pairs that recombine into neutrons.

The complete neutron star still behaves like a giant nucleus with null electric charge, i.e. with Z=0.

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