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Chapter 42, Problem 58P
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(a) show that these materials (238U and 232Th and 40K) produce energy heat at the rate of 1 x 10-9W for each kilogram of granite.
(b) estimate the power of these decay processes over all of the Earth (assuming that there is 2.7 x 1022 kg of granite in a 20-km-thick spherical shell at the surface of Earth). Compare this power to the total solar power intercepted by the Earth which is 1.7 x 1017 W.
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