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  1. Beaconator Valued Senior Member

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    True, but better safe than sorry.
     
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  3. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    Well, at least a partial answer to your 'what would happen?' question is: 'fusion will not occur'. So you don't need to worry about fusion energies.
     
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  5. origin Heading towards oblivion Valued Senior Member

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    Oh bullshit! What you said was wrong and you aren't enough of an adult to admit it.
     
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  7. Beaconator Valued Senior Member

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    Wrong as in worded incorrectly or poorly yes, but not wrong as in I was ignorant of facts or I intended to substitute my own reality.
     
  8. Beaconator Valued Senior Member

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    Alright so lets say we managed to create this monsterous disaster.

    What might happen if I throw a nickel or piece of gold at it?
     
  9. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    Gibberish.
     
  10. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    It would bounce off the iron exterior and land on the floor.
    What are you expecting?
     
  11. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    Yes. One can attach some meaning to Beaconator's post 57 (if only it had been post 56

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    Iron, being, as he says in the middle, more or less, actually more like a third of the way - of the naturally occurring elements, requires the most binding energy to be input to break its nucleus apart and is thus the most stable element, in terms of nuclear reactivity. It is the ultimate "ash" of stars.

    But as everyone but Bowser appreciates, this has nothing at all to do with chemical stability, which is determined by the stability and occupancy of the electron shells of the atom, rather than its nucleus. The electron configuration of Fe is [Ar] 3d64s2, so it has a partially filled set of 3d orbitals. This makes it quite a reactive element, forming a large range of compounds, generally involving the cations Fe²⁺and Fe³⁺ and including an extensive range of complexes, some of them of huge biochemical importance, e.g haemoglobin.
     
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  13. Beaconator Valued Senior Member

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    I would expect them both to be magnetically attracted.

    Can't tell you why, but there are reasons for it somewhere.
     
  14. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    Gold does not react to magnetism.

    And, while nickel and iron do, they will not, by themselves, attract anything.
     
  15. Beaconator Valued Senior Member

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    Yet magnetism has been induced in non magnetic materials such as magnesium.

    I was pretty surprised it had been and in no way based my question upon the research.
     
  16. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    And gold, yes.

    But what of it? There's no magnetizing source in the target object.
     
  17. Beaconator Valued Senior Member

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    There is no electric field?

    Possibly no aluminum, gallium, or indium; Yet one similarity remains. The target object and these are both slightly electronegative and to nearly the same degree by my estimation.
     
  18. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    This is again very garbled. Metals tend to lose electrons to form cations in their chemical reactions. That makes them electropositive, not electronegative. Electronegative elements are things like the halogens (F, Cl Br, I) that form anions, i.e. like to gain an extra electron.

    But in any case a metal object that has not been given an electric charge by some means is electrically neutral (the number of electrons balances the charge on the nuclei) and does not create an electric field around itself.
     
  19. Beaconator Valued Senior Member

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    It is not a hollowed out iron shell we are throwing pennies at.
     
  20. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    ?
     
  21. Beaconator Valued Senior Member

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    Wait what?

    Magnetism is generated by what now?
     
  22. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    Your response to Ex is a non sequitur twice over.
    What do hollowed out iron shells or pennies have to do with the electrical balance of an object he mentioned?
     
  23. Beaconator Valued Senior Member

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    Alright.

    We took 25 elements, most of which are organic building blocks, and wrapped them up in #26 Iron. Not w1 or tool steel but as pure iron as we can find.

    We had to put our entire setup in a vaccume and weld the top on there somehow. It cost about $10,000.

    (This is all still theoretical)
     
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