How do we know what the core of the Earth is made of?

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The deepest hole dug by humans is 12 km deep, how do we know what is there 2900 km deep?

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Every once in a while the Earth spits out the content of its core, so we take a look.

Also our physics says how rocks behave when there is million tons of other rocks on top of them: they melt under the pressure.

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