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The abundances of heavy nuclei in the low energy primary cosmic ray flux can be accounted for by the co-existence of two components, one of which has undergone nuclear spallation reactions. The passage of primary cosmic rays through the ambient gas clouds thought to be associated with quasi-stellar objects is one way in which spallation on a sufficient scale may have occurred.
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BURBIDGE, G., FOWLER, W. & HOYLE, F. Origin of Low Energy Cosmic Rays from Outside the Solar System. Nature 216, 22–25 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216022a0
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