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by Tehchops 2630 days ago
>How is gold created out of the collision of stars composed of neutrons?

They are composed predominantly out of neutrons. Some percentage of their composition is still electrons and assorted atomic nuclei, which is a non-trivial amount of matter considering the common range of density they tend to have.

I would imagine all kinds of interesting(strange?) interactions take place when such dense and energetic objects collide.