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Only if the higher mass elements are present in sufficient quantity. It is quite possible that they aren't on Jupiter. Or that there is indeed a core of heavy elements at Jupiter's center, but an envelope of liquid metallic hydrogen surrounding it. That envelope would still be denser than the gases that make up the part of Jupiter we can see.


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