The production of short-lived radionuclides by new non-rotating and rotating Wolf-Rayet model stars
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It has been speculated that WR winds may have contaminated the forming solar system, in particular with short-lived radionuclides (half-lives in the approximate 10 − 10 y range) that are responsible for a class of isotopic anomalies found in some meteoritic materials.
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