Carbon Iron Silicon Oxygen (IMAGE)

University of California - Los Angeles

Carbon Iron Silicon Oxygen

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New simulations suggest that carbon (C) routinely bonded with iron (Fe), silicon (Si) and oxygen (O) deep within the magma ocean that covered Earth when it was young. Those heavy molecules would have eventually sunk to the planet's core, hinting at hidden stores of carbon at our planet's center.

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Natalia Solomatova/École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

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