re: Common sense by Tom Paine Brosz
I'm with you here Tom. I think although the idea as posted is HIGHLY questionable, that you shouldn't be soo timid and post it on Space.
Fe is routinely produced in solar flares and other extreme phenomena above the survace of the sun. I think it'd be interesting to explore the behavior of Fe alloyed with other common flare products in the high magnetic field gradient around sunspots. Also, acceleration due to gravity is ~28g on the sun's surface. I suspect that would have to crank up a killer Schrodinger computation to understand the phases of iron in these conditions.
Not that I think there's enough iron on the surface to be significant at this point, maybe in a few Giga years...