Agreed -- I should have gone with "roughly half" or "almost half". As I wrote last night, I incorrectly recalled that n/p is often below 1 -- if I had thought f

Agreed -- I should have gone with "roughly half" or "almost half". As I wrote last night, I incorrectly recalled that n/p is often below 1 -- if I had thought for a moment about high-Z nuclei, the error would have been obvious. A great place for a reader to begin to reach their own conclusions is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%E2%80%93proton_ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%E2%80%93proton_ratio Thank you for the correction.