[July 4th]

Take an iron hand tool and drop it between the positive and negative leads on a car battery. Then run away quickly, avoiding the gaseous and molten iron.

(Note: do not actually perform!)

[Cold Heat]

avoiding the gaseous and molten iron.

LOL! I seem to be getting a lot of replies regarding the gas statement so I will reply to you and do it one time.

Vaporized and gas are different in a major way.

You can certainly vaporize iron with a large amount of heat, but it is forever destroyed and is no longer iron. It cannot be reclaimed.

A spectrometer does this to a iron or steel sample and is a good example of destructive testing.

If a element can be said to be in different forms like a gas or solid, it must remain an element and not be destroyed.

I hope this clarifies what I said. I will put my phaser back in it's holster now.

[Cold Heat]

It is not gas, it is plasma and molten metallic slag.

Some things will break down to their component parts and gases do derive from combustion of some metals. But it is not Fe Gas.

Seems funny replying to a comment that I can barely recall making in 2003.