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Old 08-August-2008, 01:10 AM
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Default Could Jupiter and Saturn Contain Liquid Metal Helium?

The interiors of the two gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn, are pretty extreme places. With atmospheric pressures of around 70 million Earth atmospheres, the phases of material become a bit difficult to understand. Usually when we think of a liquid metal, we have thoughts about liquid mercury at room temperature (or the reassembling liquid metal [...]

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