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in Earth are potassium-40, uranium-238, uranium-235, and thorium-232. The inner core is thought to have temperatures in the range of 4000 to 7000 K, and the pressure at the centre of the planet is thought to be about 360 GPa (3.6 million atm). (The exact value depends on the density profile in Earth.) Because much of the heat is provided

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