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Earth's Core Is Leaking All Sorts of Materials That Have Been Trapped Since Our Planet's Birth
Our early Earth was a heavy metal album cover: a molten ball covered in a global lava ocean, spewing lethal gases while being pelted by the flaming space-rocks of our Solar System's violently chaotic afterbirth.
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Earth’s molten core continuously releases chemical messengers that originated when the planet formed, including hydrogen drawn from the primordial gas cloud that created the Sun. That hydrogen migrates upward through the core’s layers, eventually becoming water trapped within minerals in the mantle and crust. The article likens early Earth to a lava‑covered, gas‑spewing sphere bombarded by space rocks, then notes that over 4.5 billion years the planet has cooled enough for life to appear, yet the core still leaks these ancient materials.
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