Unveiling the outer core composition with neutrino oscillation tomography
In the last 70 years, geophysics has established that the Earth’s outer core is an FeNi alloy containing a few percent of light elements, whose nature and amount remain controversial. Besides the classical combinations of silicon and oxygen, hydrogen has been advocated as the only light element that...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2023-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Earth Science |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2023.1008396/full |