{"id":207296,"date":"2025-02-26T11:10:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/discovery-suggests-there-could-be-huge-amounts-of-helium-in-earths-core"},"modified":"2025-02-26T11:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:10:28","slug":"discovery-suggests-there-could-be-huge-amounts-of-helium-in-earths-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/discovery-suggests-there-could-be-huge-amounts-of-helium-in-earths-core","title":{"rendered":"Discovery suggests there could be huge amounts of helium in Earth\u2019s core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-suggests-there-could-be-huge-amounts-of-helium-in-earths-core3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Japan and Taiwan reveal for the first time that helium, usually considered chemically inert, can bond with iron under high pressures. They used a laser-heated diamond anvil cell to find this, and the discovery suggests there could be huge amounts of helium in the Earth\u2019s core. This could challenge long-standing ideas about the planet\u2019s internal structure and history, and may even reveal details of the nebula our solar system coalesced from.<\/p>\n<p>The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.084101\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/volcanic+eruption\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">volcanic eruption<\/a> there are often traces of what is known as primordial helium. That is, helium, which differs from normal helium, or <sup>4 <\/sup>He, so called because it contains two protons and two neutrons and is continuously produced by radioactive decay. Primordial helium, or <sup>3 <\/sup>He, on the other hand, is not formed on Earth and contains two protons and one neutron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Japan and Taiwan reveal for the first time that helium, usually considered chemically inert, can bond with iron under high pressures. They used a laser-heated diamond anvil cell to find this, and the discovery suggests there could be huge amounts of helium in the Earth\u2019s core. This could challenge long-standing ideas about the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207296","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}