Sentences with phrase «solid iron ball»

Earth's inner core is a solid iron ball slightly smaller than the moon.

Not exact matches

There are three keys to making solid contact when the ball is above your feet, whether you're facing a little chip or a longer shot with an iron or a wood: 1) Swing with your shoulders — not your arms — making sure to keep the shoulders level from start to finish, 2) maintain firm wrists and 3) aim well right of the target, because you'll probably pull the ball.

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.

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.

Geologists have long believed that Earth's core, a solid ball the size of our moon, consists primarily of an iron - nickel alloy and is uniform in composition throughout.