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_______ is the process in planetary formation when heavy materials sink toward the planet's center and

lighter materials accumulate near its surface.

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the answer is differentiation hope this helps
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Differentiation is the process in planetary formation when heavy materials sink toward the planet's center and lighter materials accummulate near its surface. The term differentiation is a scientific term which really means "to separate". Planetary elements which separate include iron, which is heavy and silicate rock, which is lighter. Iron falls to the center of a planet and forms a core, silicate material stays in the middle, ice stays near the top.


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