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Earth's Inner Core Could Be Full Of Extreme Hydrogen Unlike Anything on The Surface


The Earth is akin to a rocky, molten-in-the-middle nesting doll – or perhaps a rotting, soft-centered onion, though the latter analogy affords our majestic planet much less dignity.

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