Sources of heat in the early earth included

a. Compression by gravity

b. The impact of colliding particles as they came together to form the earth

c. Decay of radioactive elements

d. All of the choices are correct

The starting materials in a nuclear change have a total mass of 2.3465 x 10-27 kg. after the change, the resulting materials have a mass of 2.3148 x 10-27 kg. how much energy was released during the change? 2.85 x 10-12 2.08 * 10-10 j 0 211 * 10-10 j 8.56 * 10-43