1. Bernard Marty is at the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Nancy Université, CNRS, 54501 Vandoeuvre lès Nancy, France.
   e-mail: bmarty@crpg.cnrs-nancy.fr

Abstract

Late addition of meteoric material to the Earth's mantle could explain the presence of iron-loving elements that should have entered the Earth's core at its formation. But experiments at realistic conditions show that enough palladium could have remained in the mantle.

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