It is shown that a natural consequence of the binary pulsar's evolution is a neutron star collision. Such a collision is expected to eject neutron-rich matter of an r-process character. Taking reasonable estimates for the number of such events over the history of the galaxy, it may be that they account for all of the r-process nuclei.
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Symbalisty, E., & Schramm, D. ~N. N. (1982). Neutron star collisions and the r-process. Astrophysical Letters, 22, 143–145.
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