What insight would be gained from such a definition? Neutron stars are presumably held together by gravity, not by quantum forces, so nuclear "chemistry" isn't implicated. Neither is normal chemistry implicated, as I see no possibility of multiple neutron stars getting together as molecules. You raise an interesting possibility of a substantial net charge on such an object, but wouldn't such a charge allow a huge amount of energy to bleed off in the form of moving charges generating electromagnetic waves ? Neutron stars appear to be a totally different kind of matter, with the possibility of all kinds of bizarre behaviors. At 08:46 AM 6/25/2014, Whitfield Diffie wrote:
I recall reading the intreaguing observation that stable neutron structures run up to around atomic wieght 300 and then their is a long gap before you get to the neutron stars with atomic weights around 10^50. Perhaps we should regard the neutron stars as isotopes of very heavy elements. The atomic numbers would be miniscule by comparison with the atomic weights but a mildely positively charged neutron star doesn't seem impossible: would adding a billion protons make a difference?
Whit