mantle

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Using extensive modeling, Walton and his co-authors found that both phosphorus and nitrogen remain in the mantle in large enough amounts only within a very narrow range of moderate oxygen conditions.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

When Chavez died in 1993, she took on the mantle that, at age 95, she still wears.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Over the years, Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi’s airports took that mantle.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

This condition resulted from hot material rising upward from Earth's mantle.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

We know that to a depth of about a hundred miles the mantle consists predominantly of a type of rock known as peridotite, but what fills the space beyond is uncertain.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson