Thread: Seriousness What Heats the Earth's Core?
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Old 10-06-2010, 08:52 PM   #50
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Originally Posted by wodin View Post
I would question the credibility of an article that makes a statement like:



Water expands as it freezes, liquid metal does not, it contracts. In fact water is the only know substance that does.

If Marone can’t get that right, what else did he get wrong? Being a Penn State professor of geosciences, he should know better!
Hmmm....

Still I think there is convection/rotation friction causing heading as the liquid and semi-liquid rock and metal and etc moves around...
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