The secular cooling of the Earth is its slow loss of the heat stored inside it since it formed, the primordial heat: the part of the heat flow that radioactivity does not replace, by which the mantle and the core grow colder over the ages.
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什么是 Secular cooling?
Secular cooling is the part of the Earth’s heat loss supplied by the slow decrease of the temperature of its interior, mantle and core: the release of heat stored since the planet’s formation, at a rate for reservoirs of mass , specific heat and mean temperature .