If Earth's Core had ALL Of the Heavy Metals
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Back home, Earth had gone through an impact-coalesce cycle only once. Since then, its core has been 84% iron, 6% nickel and the rest being labeled by The Encyclopedia of Earth: A Complete Visual Guide as "Other".
In this alternate scenario, Earth had gone through multiple impact-coalesce cycles over a course of 600 million years. As a result, iron still makes up 84% of the core, but the remaining 16% has the greatest concentrations of the planet's heavy metals, all of them. (List of heavy metals in this link.)
How would this difference affect Earth's overall chemistry?
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