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Originally Posted by Railstar
The spell description says it turns an item of stone into a simple metal like bronze or iron.
To me the bronze part tells me the spell interprets "simple" differently to our modern understanding of chemistry. Bronze is fine but steel isn't, even though bronze is also an alloy (though perhaps the difference is because steel is part carbon and carbon isn't a metal?).
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Not just modern! The seven classical metals iron, copper, tin, lead, silver, gold, and either zinc or mercury could have been a good model, although there are also languages where coppper = copperalloy just like iron = "a sludge of mostly Fe and some Si, Mn, C, P ..."
I think that the Earth to Metal option was originally for technomagic settings. It does not belong in 99% of fantasy games. GURPS Magic contains many spells which will break any setting you can name (different spells for different settings) ... for good or bad it is up to the GM to chose which are commonly available in their setting.