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Beaconator said:
If I were to surround every element up to iron in an iron shell?
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If they are all together, you would get a rapid exothermic reaction, generating a lot of oxides and halides. Basically the elements on the right of the p-block of the Periodic Table would react with the others, preferentially those on the left.

If you mean each element individually, then we would need to go through each combination with iron in turn. This would take too long for me to bother with it.
 
exchemist said:
If they are all together, you would get a rapid exothermic reaction, generating a lot of oxides and halides. Basically the elements on the right of the p-block of the Periodic Table would react with the others, preferentially those on the left.
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So we don't know how this bunch would react with its shell. Could the heat from the bunch be withstood from an iron casing?
 
Beaconator said:
So we don't know how this bunch would react with its shell. Could the heat from the bunch be withstood from an iron casing?
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It's to do with relative reaction rates (and thermodynamics). The rate at which oxygen and the halogens, for example, would react with alkali and alkaline earth metals would greatly exceed that at which they would react with Fe. The ultimate reaction products would obviously depend on how much of each element was present, but the first things to happen would be the most reactive combinations reacting to produce relatively inert compounds, and then what was left would react in some way. Fe is not that high up the reactivity series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactivity_series
 
Beaconator said:
That chart sucks. Lets make a better one
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I can testify to the reactivity of sodium. Of the two explosions I was involved in at school, I only caused one, and that was with sodium. (Tiny sodium crumbs down the drain --> minor poof.)
 
sideshowbob said:
I can testify to the reactivity of sodium. Of the two explosions I was involved in at school, I only caused one, and that was with sodium. (Tiny sodium crumbs down the drain --> minor poof.)
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Separating oxygen and hydrogen faster than a microwave. Lol lol
 
exchemist said:
Go on then. This could be funny.
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What I'm talking about is very dangerous, but the reward is insurmountable.

I would hypothesize the further away from iron a material lies on the periodic table the more reactive in general.

While the upheld belief measures reactivity with atmospheric bias as well as other forms of bias.
 
You could separate reactive elements between iron and start the vacvac and see how long or at what pressure it takes for them to react.
 
Beaconator said:
So we don't know how this bunch would react with its shell. Could the heat from the bunch be withstood from an iron casing?
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some elements would react with each other.
given their mass effect to create their own gravity...
the larger the iron mass the greater the gravity effect on all of the contents.

however...
iron is very conductive
space weather from the sun is constant and varied.
sometimes there is massive amounts of solar wind.
the iron would become electrically charged by the solar wind which would probably ignite the contents like a high pressure oven.

the main issue you may need to look at is
some elements have no real different reaction in tiny amounts.

from what i can tell, not being a scientist... there is no current planetary/geophysical body that comes close to your idea.
Gas giants are possibly the closest aside from earth.

you may wish to get more detailed to get a better precision of answer for your question.
 
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