To: wirestripper
"Iron cannot in a normal state, be in gaseous form or any other form but a solid.
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Huh? Iron is fairly easily melted, so it is not always in a solid. Anyone who does welding melts iron frequently. Use a cutting torch? Then you're burning iron in oxygen. That's where all those sparks come from. At a high enough temperature, iron vaporises, as well.
8 posted on
11/19/2003 9:34:25 AM PST by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: MineralMan
I said normal state.
High temps are required to melt. Normal state is what it is. The normal space conditions. Usually in the very cold category. Iron would be a solid and likely a dust. It cannot be compressed as a gas can and it is not known to react with anything but oxygen.
That is what I meant. Great planetary building material but not likely to start a fusion or fission reaction.
Kind of a nutty theory IMO. We know a great deal about the sun. not enough mind you, but a great deal of information has been gathered, to include much data about composition. Not theory, but data. This article flies in the face of everything we know.
18 posted on
11/19/2003 9:50:28 AM PST by
Cold Heat
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