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For questions about the Earth's core. The center of the Earth is primarily iron-nickel.
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Why is Earth's inner core solid?
addition to the answers below and my comment above, I believe the following phase diagram, from DavePhd's answer here, sourced from here, is more appropriate for the pressure levels near the Earth's core … We can see from the image that for pressures between 330 and 360GPa, the melting temperature ranges from about 6200 K to 6600 K, which is much higher than Earth's inner core temperature of about 5700 K …
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