It is believed that a giant impact may have taken away some of Mercury's low-density crustal rock and left a small, dense world with a(n) large, dense, and _______________ core

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word


metallic

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The atom 40K decays radioactively to the gas 40Ar. An ancient rock is found to contain enough 40Ar gas to indicate that 77.0% of the 40K in the rock has decayed to 40Ar since the rock solidified

(Any previous argon would have boiled out of liquid rock.) How long ago did the rock solidify? The half-life of 40K is 1.25 billion years. A) 2.65 billion years B) 0.471 billion years C) 1.80 billion years D) 0.324 billion years

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Describe the advantages and disadvantages of downloadable, streaming, and pseudostreaming media. 

What will be an ideal response?

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The hydrosphere covers about 50% of the Earth's crust

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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An electron is released from rest at a distance of 9.00 cm from a fixed proton. How fast will the electron be moving when it is 3.00 cm from the proton?

(k = 1/4??0 = 8.99 × 109 N ? m2/C2, e = 1.60 × 10-19 C, melectron = 9.11 × 10-31 kg, mproton = 1.67 × 10-27 kg) A) 75.0 m/s B) 106 m/s C) 130 m/s D) 1.06 × 103 m/s E) 4.64 × 105 m/s

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