地核有百分之多少是铀?核心的热量有多少来自放射性衰变而不是其他力量?< / p >
不仅仅是铀。有四种同位素,它们的半衰期足够长,可以是原初的,而它们的半衰期又不是很长,不能产生太多的热量。这四种同位素分别是
Geophysicists look at the amount of heat needed to drive the Earth's magnetic field, and at the recent results from neutrino observations. From their perspective, the amount of residual heat from the Earth's formation is not near enough to drive the geomagneto. The growth of the Earth's inner core creates some heat, but not near enough to sustain the geodynamo. Geophysicists want a good amount of heat flux across the core mantle boundary to sustain the geodynamo, and to them the only viable source is radioactivity. Recent geoneutrino experiments appear to rule out uranium or thorium in the Earth's core, but not potassium 40. The neutrinos generated from the decay of potassium 40 are not detectable using current technology.
Gautron et al.[1] study the inclusion of uranium in an aluminum-doped calcium silicate perovskite, which is believed to exist in the lower mantle (the authors cite Ref. 2). With the aluminum doping, the silicate perovskite becomes compatible with uranium(IV), and thereby "all the uranium present in this region could be easily stored via its insertion in the Al-CaSiO3 perovskite." The authors suggest that thorium, which also favors the +4 oxidation state and forms a similarly large cation, may similarly be incorporated, although they directly studied only uranium.
References
Laurent Gautron, Steeve Greaux, Denis Andrault, Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova, Nicolas Guignot, M. Ali Bouhifd (2006). "Uranium in the Earth's lower mantle". Geophysical Research Letters 33(23), L23301. https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL027508.
Hirose, K. (2002). "Phase transitions in the pyrolitic mantle around 670–km depth: Implications of upwellings of plumes from the lower mantle". J. Geophys. Res., 107(B4), 2078. https://doi.org/10.1029/2001JB000597.