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Helium and Earth’s core

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                                     Helium and Earth’s core A new assessment of a volcanic eruption in Canada's Arctic shows that helium trapped in the Earth's core may "melt" into the mantle after reaching the ground - an idea that the state of scientific information about the inner workings of our planet. It is common evidence to support the hypothesis that the first "reservoirs" of helium and other elements were trapped in the center of the Earth when the sun and the smaller planets coalesced in a cloud of gas and dust over billions of years. 4.5 in the past. The findings "suggest that somewhere in the deep mass of our planet, gases are being stored away from being created by Earth," says lead author Forrest Horton, a geochemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Scientists can get some idea of ​​where a helium atom came from by investigating the number of neutrons in its nucleus—a determination that identifies one type, or isotope, of th