"rocky" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Its nickel-iron core is half the diameter of the world, the rest being rocky mantle and crust.
- Recent ultrahigh-pressure achievements include the creation of chemical reactions that probably occur at the boundary between the Earth's molten-iron core and its rocky mantle.
- Scientists have managed to recreate chemical reactions that occur at ultra-high pressure at the boundary between the Earth's rocky mantle and its molten core.
- Our terrestrial planets have metallic cores of mostly iron, with rocky mantles and crusts.
- A similar but weaker process is theorised to have melted the lower layers of the ice surrounding the rocky mantle of Jupiter's next large moon, Europa.
- The molten core and its solid kernel are enveloped in a rocky mantle comparable to an apple's pulp.
- Iron-rich planets may be the remnants of normal metal/silicate rocky planets whose rocky mantles were stripped away by giant impacts.
- The high density of this world must mean it had no rocky mantle to speak of.
- Much of our planet's rocky mantle was reduced to dust and hot gas and blasted into space.
- The standard type of terrestrial planet seen in the Solar System, made primarily of silicon-based rocky mantle with a metallic (iron) core.
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