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I know that there are radioactive elements present in the Earth's core, but has anyone determined how much? That is, do we have an estimate of the number of neutrinos per second generated within the Earth (i.e., due to radioactive decay processes)?

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    $\begingroup$ There's actually a neat Wiki article for this. Several references inside; I've never read, though. $\endgroup$ Commented Sep 22, 2021 at 23:08
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    $\begingroup$ you might be interested in this review arxiv.org/pdf/1910.09321.pdf $\endgroup$
    – anna v
    Commented Sep 23, 2021 at 4:39
  • $\begingroup$ @annav - Thanks for the link. I figured someone must have looked into this and oddly I never thought to search for geoneutrino :( This is a tome, wow... $\endgroup$ Commented Sep 23, 2021 at 13:25

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