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Early Earth’s Deep Mantle May Have Held More Water Than Previously Believed, Study Finds

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Scientists have discovered that Earth’s deep mantle may have stored an ocean’s worth of water during the planet’s earliest years. New experiments show that bridgmanite, a dominant mantle mineral, can hold much more water under extreme heat, offering fresh insight into how Earth retained water and became habitable. 

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