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with the mass numbers of the abundance peaks for r-process nuclei. This amounts to almost a gram of free neutrons in every cubic centimeter, an astonishing number requiring extreme locations. Traditionally this suggested the material ejected from the re-expanded core of a core-collapse supernova, as part of supernova nucleosynthesis, or decompression of neutron star matter thrown off by a binary neutron star merger

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