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by dahfizz 681 days ago
Interesting, thanks! I did not know the eath's core is still generating heat.
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There's a nearly-negligible amount of heat being created from simple radioactive decay, but essentially all of the heat is just leftover from the formation of the planet.

Which is just nuts to think about. The core is that hot and it has been for billions of years. Incredible.

The linked wiki article says around 50% of geothermal heat is from radioactive decay
Emitting heat technically. Imagine rocks warmed by a fire or those in a sauna, they cool off very, very slowly. At earths core is a giant chunk of super compressed and super heated lead. I don't recall if the core is the size of the moon, but you could imagine a solid ball of lead for your sauna that is the size of the moon and so hot it would melt if it were not under extreme pressure.
Iron and nickel mostly, not lead, AFAIK
My mistake, good correction