: The earth’s inner core is 9,800° F, almost as hot as the sun. Why is the core solid? Shouldn’t the iron and nickel liquify?

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I also read that it may be somewhere between solid and liquid in a “superionic” state. But I don’t really understand what they mean. Is there an animated video of this hypothesis?

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

On top of this, hot iron (even just red) isn’t magnetic. Heating a magnetic iron will lose its magnetism. How does this molten core produce a massive magnetic field around earth?