That 'Underground Ocean' Isn't Liquid: What Scientists Really Found Beneath Earth
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Water Trapped Inside Earth’s Solid Rock
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Sensational claims often make it sound like there’s this massive liquid ocean sitting somewhere deep inside the Earth’s mantle, but really scientists have turned up something more subtle. Instead of an ocean, there’s immense water volumes locked inside the molecular structure of solid rock, like the water is “stuck” there, not floating around.