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Earth's Core Has Another Layer, Scientists Claim
LiveScience.com ^
| 12/8/10
| Charles Q. Choi
Posted on 12/08/2010 12:01:06 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
The Earth's core is composed mainly of iron Probably. But I'd like to know how it got there, from the swirling clouds of hydrogen that sort of clumped together to form the proto-planets I mean.
ML/NJ
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posted on
12/08/2010 12:25:24 PM PST
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ml/nj
To: ml/nj
From the millions of degrees of heat down there, heat turns hydrogen into iron, just ask Al “baby doc” Gore, it’s just releasing it’s inner Chakra........
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posted on
12/08/2010 12:31:37 PM PST
by
sniper63
(Did you plug the hole in the border yet daddy........)
To: sniper63
Where does all the heat come from?
ML/NJ
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posted on
12/08/2010 12:38:21 PM PST
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ml/nj
To: ml/nj
From the exploded Super Nova that created our part of this end of the galaxy.
They always have a supply of the heavier elements.
That stuff comes in the form of tiny dust particles in and amongst the gas clouds.
Eventually gravity pulls it back together; it all heats up; the dust particles melt from the heat of gravitational compaction; and suddenly it all settles out with most of the heaviest stuff at the bottom (uranium, gold, iron), and the lighter stuff at the top (silicon, carbon, nitrogen).
From that point on it just takes a bit of time to resettle more of these materials until you get a hard surface crust.
We get the rest of our iron and other heavy metals through collisions with smaller bodies ~ small planets, meteors, moons, space junk, and so on.
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posted on
12/08/2010 12:39:04 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
12/08/2010 12:41:08 PM PST
by
Wuli
To: muawiyah
it all heats up Sure it does!
You don't really beleive this stuff, do you?
ML/NJ
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posted on
12/08/2010 12:41:21 PM PST
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ml/nj
To: ml/nj
memo to self: Use spell checker even for small posts.
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posted on
12/08/2010 12:42:29 PM PST
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ml/nj
To: bert
So, the "footnote" ~ does that appear anywhere but at the Nature site?
The accessibility of those bands may well ultimately affect the value of gold and totally debase the stuff.
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posted on
12/08/2010 12:47:51 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: ml/nj
Of course. Didn't God "look up on the face of the deep" and then He said "Let there be light" ~ that is, electromagnetic radiation of all frequencies ~ and we know if you produce such radiation you can heat stuff up pretty good ~ whether it's at a campfire, a home stove, a giant iron ore smelter, a thermonuclear bomb......
There are so many ways we can take simple "light" to torch stuff I can't begin to list them all.
Now, do you dispute the Bible? Do you doubt that God can make galaxies, suns, planets, layers of post collision melt in the bowels of the Earth?
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posted on
12/08/2010 12:53:05 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: NormsRevenge
Yes, it does. Fire ants. A very thick layer too.
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posted on
12/08/2010 12:57:29 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Palin 2012: don't retreat, just reload)
To: USS Alaska
I suddenly have a craving for Scotch.
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12/08/2010 1:01:11 PM PST
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Oratam
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
12/08/2010 1:01:44 PM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(III, Alarm and Muster)
To: SparkyBass
Now we know where nougat REALLY comes from.
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posted on
12/08/2010 1:02:34 PM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(III, Alarm and Muster)
To: ml/nj
Probably. But I'd like to know how it got there, from the swirling clouds of hydrogen that sort of clumped together to form the proto-planets I mean. The planets weren't formed from 'swirling clouds of hydrogen'. If you are serious you can google and find some nice resources on star and planet formation. Really quite interesting.
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12/08/2010 1:02:51 PM PST
by
SeeSac
To: NormsRevenge
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
12/08/2010 1:04:34 PM PST
by
The Comedian
(Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
To: muawiyah
True.
We are literally made from the dust of stars.
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posted on
12/08/2010 1:05:20 PM PST
by
agere_contra
(...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
To: ml/nj
You don't really beleive this stuff, do you? It's the best explanation so far.
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posted on
12/08/2010 1:05:27 PM PST
by
SeeSac
To: muawiyah
Do you doubt that God can make galaxies, suns, planets, layers of post collision melt in the bowels of the Earth? I don't pretend to know, unlike most people.
ML/NJ
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posted on
12/08/2010 1:09:58 PM PST
by
ml/nj
To: SeeSac
It's the best explanation so far. Yeah. Sort of like wondering what keeps airplanes up in the air. One possibility is that the tooth fairy does it; and the other is that planes harness the gravitation forces of extraterestial bodies. One of those is best too.
ML/NJ
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posted on
12/08/2010 1:13:51 PM PST
by
ml/nj
To: ml/nj
Yeah. Sort of like wondering what keeps airplanes up in the air. One possibility is that the tooth fairy does it; and the other is that planes harness the gravitation forces of extraterestial bodies. One of those is best too. Actually it is because airplane wings deflect particles of the air in a downward motion. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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12/08/2010 1:16:20 PM PST
by
SeeSac
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