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Earth’s Explosive History Explains Its Strange Chemical Make-Up
The red is volatiles, the yellow is molten rock (Image: Philip J. Carter) If you made a building out of bricks and cinderblocks, then hundreds of years later you’d expect it to still be, well, a building made of bricks and cinderblocks. But planets are not buildings if you haven’t noticed. Earth, for instance, just…