SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: Researchers Recreate Deep-Earth Conditions to See How Iron Copes With Extreme Stress
November 12, 2021
November 12, 2021
MENLO PARK, California, Nov. 12 (TNSJou) -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release:
Far below you lies a sphere of solid iron and nickel about as wide as the broadest part of Texas: the Earth's inner core. The metal at the inner core is under pressure about 360 million times higher than we experience in our everyday lives and temperatures approximately as hot as the Sun's surface.
Earth's planetary core is thankfully in . . .
Far below you lies a sphere of solid iron and nickel about as wide as the broadest part of Texas: the Earth's inner core. The metal at the inner core is under pressure about 360 million times higher than we experience in our everyday lives and temperatures approximately as hot as the Sun's surface.
Earth's planetary core is thankfully in . . .