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I always doubted that the original Earth had significant quantities of volatiles.

It was just too hot. Only after the crust cooled enough to solidify could it retain volatiles such as water, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, etc.

Hence, the Earth must have received these volatiles after solidification of the crust. There were plenty of comets out there with huge quantities of volatiles four billion years ago.

David F Mayer

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