I say entropic black hole suffering from indigestion On Monday, January 21, 2013, ChemE Stewart wrote:
> Geologists say liquid not plasma so you are bucking the trend, I admire > that > > The *outer core* of the Earth <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth> is a > liquid layer about 2,266 km (1,408 mi) thick composed of > iron<http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron> > and nickel <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel> which lies above the > Earth's solid inner core <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_core> and > below itsmantle <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle_(geology)>. Its > outer boundary lies 2,890 km (1,800 mi) beneath the Earth's surface. The > transition between the inner core and outer core is located approximately > 5,150 km (3,200 mi) beneath the Earth's surface. > > On Monday, January 21, 2013, Giovanni Santostasi wrote: > > There is a outer core that is molten and the inner core that is solid. > Giovanni > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:14 PM, ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > > Funny, > > Last I read they think the inner core is solid... > > The *inner core* of the Earth <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth>, its > innermost part, is a primarily solid <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid> > ball <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_%28mathematics%29> with a radius > of about 1,220 km (760 mi), according to seismological > studies<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismology> > .[1] > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_core#cite_note-1>[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_core#cite_note-2> > (This > is about 70% of the length of the Moon <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon>'s > radius.) It is believed to consist primarily of an > iron<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron> > –nickel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel> > alloy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alloy>, > and to be about the same temperature as the surface of the > Sun<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun>: > approximately 5700 K <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin>(5430 °C). > > So I guess we are both bucking the trend... You say solid, I say black > hole > > >
