Sentences with phrase «of liquid iron»

The motion of liquid iron in the outer core is itself driven by the continuous loss of heat from the inner core.

The core of the Earth contains an inner layer, an iron - rich solid ball, and an outer layer, of liquid iron and nickel, with a mantle of silicate.

The new data should help scientists better model the movement of liquid iron in the outer core, which gives rise to Earth's magnetic field, says Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California.

It is generated by turbulent motions of liquid iron in Earth's core.

Astronomers already knew that Mercury has a magnetic field about 1 per cent the strength of Earth's, and that the rotation of liquid iron in the core generates the field, just as happens inside Earth.

It is generated by the rotation of liquid iron in the core, just as happens inside Earth.

The Earth's magnetic field is generated by the flow of liquid iron, an electrical conductor, in the Earth's outer core, between 3000 and 5000 kilometres beneath the surface.

The Earth's core consists mainly of a sphere of liquid iron at temperatures above 4000 degrees and pressures of more than 1.3 million atmospheres.

This mechanical forcing applied to the whole planet causes strong currents in the outer core, which is made up of a liquid iron alloy of very low viscosity.

His idea is to open a crack in Earth's crust with a controlled blast and then pour in 100,000 tons of liquid iron, along with a few refrigerator - size probes.

This shield is produced by the geodynamo, the rapid motion of huge quantities of liquid iron alloy in the Earth's outer core.

The researchers show that this effect could continuously stimulate the motion of the liquid iron alloy making up the outer core, and in return generate Earth's magnetic field.

Stevenson's idea is to open a crack in Earth's crust with a controlled blast and pour in 100,000 tons of liquid iron, along with a few refrigerator - size probes.

The discovery is vexing: If liquid iron conducts heat into the mantle at such a high rate, there wouldn't be enough heat left in the outer core to churn its ocean of liquid iron.

The planetary architecture that provides Earth's sheltering field has been broadly understood for several decades now: a solid - iron inner core roughly the size of the moon, surrounded by a 1,400 - mile - thick outer core of liquid iron and nickel, with 1,800 miles of solid mantle above, topped by a crust of slowly drifting tectonic plates.

Not exact matches

Pot Likker is packed with iron and vitamins C and K and is one of the most revered liquids in Southern cooking around my house.

After 3 hours we still had a lot of liquid with a molten fat layer, so we fired up a cast iron skillet and spooned some of the fat into the skillet and crisped the meat in a separate pan.

Treat non-stick just like well - seasoned cast - iron pans; except non-stick can be washed with a drop of dishwashing liquid and a brush; rinsed; put away.

Protein, fibre, omega 3, calcium, iron, and when you combine with liquid it turns sort of gelatinous which is apparently very cleansing for the body

Child Proof the House (Set the temperature of your hot water heater to 120 degrees F, use covers on electrical outlets and latches on cabinets, keep household cleaners, chemicals and medicines completely out of reach and always store them in their original container and know the Poison Control Center number (1-800-222-1222), do not carry hot liquids or food near your child and do not allow your child near stoves, heaters or other hot appliances (especially curling irons), and when cooking, use the back burners and turn pot handles inward, to prevent drowning, never leave your child alone near any container of water, keep a list of emergency numbers near the phone, and lock rooms that are not child proof).

The pediatrician will probably suggest an over-the-counter (OTC) liquid vitamin D supplement for your baby (many of them contain vitamins A and C too, which is fine for your little one to have — adequate vitamin C intake actually improves iron absorption).

Give liquid iron supplements daily (12.5 mg / day) to infants 6 months to 1 year of age if daily vitamin - mineral supplements or iron - fortified foods are not being given.

Stevenson, the Caltech geophysicist, says the new values for liquid iron's conductivity will probably stand the test of time.

Two years ago, a team of scientists from two British universities discovered that liquid iron, at the temperatures and pressures found in the outer core, conducts far more heat into the mantle than anyone had thought possible.

Below the ice, scientists predict there's a layer of magnesium silicate perovskite (minerals also found in Earth's mantle) and then a liquid iron core.

Alfè and his colleagues used supercomputers to carry out a «first principles» calculation of heat flow in liquid iron at Earth's core.

Sitting on top of the liquid outer core, it may sink slightly, disturbing the flow of iron and ultimately affecting Earth's magnetic field.

Earth's magnetic field is generated in its liquid iron core, and this «geodynamo» requires a regular release of heat from the planet to operate.

The Outer Core Made of molten iron, nickel, and other ingredients yet to be determined, the churning liquid outer core may have the viscosity of water, streaming at possibly one to several miles per week with the turbulence of a gargantuan, slow - moving washing machine.

It is only at the very centre of the Earth, where pressure and temperature rise even higher, that the liquid iron solidifies.

The sun spews energetic particles that can pry life - sustaining molecules from our atmosphere, but Earth's magnetic shield, which originates from the planet's hot core of churning, liquid iron, shoos those particles away.

Below the mantle is the outer core, composed of liquid, molten iron and nickel, which envelopes an inner core of solid iron at the center of the planet.

Trapped within large diamonds, slivers of embedded iron surrounded by special gases reveal that the precious gems were formed in liquid metal — a discovery that also confirms metal - saturated conditions deep in the Earth, a new study in the 16 December issue of Science reports.

Together with Eric Blackman, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester, and Michael Watkeys, a geologist at the University of KwaZulu - Natal in South Africa, Tarduno hypothesizes that the region — which is referred to as a Large Low Shear Velocity Province (LLSVP)-- affects the direction of the churning liquid iron that generates Earth's magnetic field.

Within Earth's core, iron turns from a liquid to a solid at the inner boundary of the planet's liquid outer core; this results in a solid inner part and liquid outer part.

«If the core is made of iron, Mars will wobble one way; if it's liquid, it will wobble a different way.»

And they are suggesting that a scum of iron - rich mineral is now frozen around the rest of the core, which is still liquid.

Sorting through 40 - year - old records of moonquakes (red dots) has apparently revealed a liquid - iron core (yellow) and a solid - iron inner core (orange).

They used an iron - bearing liquid which they released in small drops at regular intervals at the centre of a dish of silicone oil.

It is widely accepted that the Earth's inner core formed about a billion years ago when a solid, super-hot iron nugget spontaneously began to crystallize inside a 4,200 - mile - wide ball of liquid metal at the planet's center.

We know that the planet has a partly solid, partly liquid core, composed largely of iron, surrounded by a thick, flowing mantle, topped by a thin layer of crust.

For the latest iteration, they mixed the liquid and one of three concentrations containing cobalt, iron or molybdenum metal salts.

To get more answers, you once proposed embedding a probe in liquid iron and shooting it to the center of the Earth.

Subjects were fed a liquid formula diet of 40 % fat (corn oil), 45 % carbohydrate (glucose polymer), and 15 % protein (casein hydrolysate) supplemented with 5.0 g iodized NaCl, 1.9 g K, and 2.5 g calcium carbonate per day, 1 mg of folic acid twice weekly, and 36 mg ferrous iron every other day.

These insights hold the key to manipulating the atomic structure of the graphite through manufacturing treatments such as changing the chemistry of the melt and altering the inoculants added to the liquid cast iron.

My inclination for science increased during high - school, thanks to spectacular experiments in the chemistry laboratory — so many different thoughts on nature and behaviour of matter: the replacement of a metal by another in the reaction of iron and copper sulfate, the formation of a visible solid by the combination of two liquid solutions with the formation of a precipitate and the violent reaction of alkali metals with water were some of the things that impressed me in those days.

Earth's magnetic field is thought to be generated largely by an ocean of superheated, swirling liquid iron that makes up Earth's outer core 3000 km under our feet.

If Mercury's core material condensed from primordial matter at pressures of one atmosphere or more, iron would condense as a liquid capable of dissolving copious amounts of hydrogen.

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A natural - source iron such as the liquid irons available in health - food stores are very well absorbed and do not contribute to constipation the way that many of the prescribed iron - salts do.