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by dredmorbius 2104 days ago
At their surface, and possibly internally, the neutronium likely breaks down, if only briefly, giving protons and electrons.

Voila, spinning charges.

Current models indicate that matter at the surface of a neutron star is composed of ordinary atomic nuclei crushed into a solid lattice with a sea of electrons flowing through the gaps between them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star#Structure