Composition and State of the Core

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Thermal evolution of the core with a high thermal conductivity (2014, unknown): “Unfortunately, large discrepancies exist between the diﬀerent studies on the topic (Masters and Gubbins, 2003; Cao and Romanowicz, 2004; Koper and Dombrovskaya, 2005; Hirose et al., 2013, for a review) and the uncertainty in this key parameter directly aﬀects the compositional energy.”
Planetary and meteoritic Mg/Si and δ30Si variations inherited from solar nebula chemistry (2015, background): “6) wt% and is consistent with core composition models that call for the presence of elements other than silicon to explain the density deficit of Earth’s core (Hirose et al., 2013; Badro et al., 2014).”