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Subject: Distance from sun each element of the periodic table would begin to melt??

Date: Fri May 26 21:20:05 2006
Posted by Gabriel
Grade level: nonaligned School: No school entered.
City: Winnipeg State/Province: Manitoba Country: Canada
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 1148703605.As
Message:

What are the distances from the sun (or any star, mass relative) that each of 
the elements of periodic table would begin to melt. I tried to extapolate the 
distances from the sun that all the elements would begin to melt and I got an 
abusrd result on my excel chart for the closest distance. I used some old data 
that I have at home about water ice and methane ice, but I got 1000 degrees 
Celsius at zero distance from the sun and that has to be wrong since the 
surface of the sun is 5500 degrees Celsius. Please Help!


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