Hot Enough to Vaporize Rock (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Hot Enough to Vaporize Rock

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Washington University in St. Louis cosmochemists show that hot, rocky exoplanets with steam atmospheres may vaporize some of their rocky elements and then lose them to space, changing the bulk composition of the planet.

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NASA

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