How do seams/veins of metal form in the ground? Magma looks so homogenous – wouldn’t all the metallic components get mixed in with everything else when it cools?
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I don’t know how homogeneous magma actually is, but I can tell you for sure that the only reason it all looks equally orange is because it’s all equally very hot. When stuff gets hot enough to glow with visible light, the color pretty much depends only on the temperature, and not what it’s made of. So it might have clumps of different materials floating around in it, and you wouldn’t know by looking
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