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Old 12-28-2020, 10:44 AM   #61
Fred Brackin
 
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Default Re: Meteoric iron immunities

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Originally Posted by SolemnGolem View Post

I'm not even sure what form of matter the iron would be on the inside of such a theoretical stellar mass. Plasma?

If the heat has radiated away, then presumably it would be cooler than plasma, though I'm not sure about the effect of gravitational density. Perhaps it's a metallic soup?
If its star followed our rules of stellar evolution i think it might not exist. The iron cycle only happens in very large stars and only after they get very hot. They probably do go "BOOM!" one way or the other.

<shrug>The material very easily could be literally "unearthly" in some form though.
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