{"id":105376,"date":"2020-04-14T17:06:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/heavy-iron-isotopes-leaking-from-earths-core"},"modified":"2020-04-14T17:06:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:06:32","slug":"heavy-iron-isotopes-leaking-from-earths-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/heavy-iron-isotopes-leaking-from-earths-core","title":{"rendered":"Heavy iron isotopes leaking from Earth\u2019s core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heavy-iron-isotopes-leaking-from-earths-core3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could use magnetism to pull the iron back inside. O,.,o.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Earth\u2019s molten core may be leaking iron, according to researchers who analyzed how iron behaves inside our planet.<\/p>\n<p>The boundary between the liquid iron core and the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/rocky+mantle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">rocky mantle<\/a> is located some 1,800 miles (2,900 km) below Earth\u2019s surface. At this transition, the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/temperature+drops\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">temperature drops<\/a> by more than a thousand degrees from the hotter core to the cooler mantle.<\/p>\n<p>The new study suggests heavier iron isotopes migrate toward <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/lower+temperatures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lower temperatures <\/a>\u2014and into the mantle\u2014while lighter iron isotopes circulate back down into the core. (Isotopes of the same element have different numbers of neutrons, giving them slightly different masses.) This effect could cause core material infiltrating the lowermost mantle to be enriched in heavy iron isotopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could use magnetism to pull the iron back inside. O,.,o. Earth\u2019s molten core may be leaking iron, according to researchers who analyzed how iron behaves inside our planet. The boundary between the liquid iron core and the rocky mantle is located some 1,800 miles (2,900 km) below Earth\u2019s surface. At this transition, the temperature drops [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}