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Plutonium-244 in the Early Solar System

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Recent studies on the abundances of 244Pu and 129I in the early solar system support the continuous galactic nucleosynthesis theory. The agreement between the two “nuclear clocks” is excellent.

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KURODA, P. Plutonium-244 in the Early Solar System. Nature 221, 726–729 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/221726a0

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