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Temperature of the inner-core boundary of the Earth: Melting of iron at high pressure from first-principles coexistence simulations

Dario Alfè

The Earth's core consists of a solid ball with a radius of 1221 Km, surrounded by a liquid shell which extends up to 3480 Km from the centre of the planet, roughly half way towards…