For other people named Neville Chamberlain, see Neville Chamberlain (disambiguation). Arthur Neville Chamberlain, FRS (18 March 1869 â 9 November 1940) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The outer core of the Earth is a liquid layer about 2,300 km (1,400 mi) thick and composed of iron and nickel that lies above Earth's solid inner core and below its mantle. Its outer boundary lies 2,890 km (1,800 mi) beneath Earth's surface.
Let's start from the inside and work our way out. Earth has a core, but this is really two distinct parts: the inner core and the outer core. Both parts of the core are made up of mostly iron and some nickel. The difference is that in the inner core, those minerals are solid and in the outer core, they're liquid.