How heavy is the body?
How heavy is the body?
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My son recently posed an interesting question. He is a comic artist and often creates his own superheros for the stories he writes. He gave me some information then asked a question.
Suppose a few men were working in a steel plant and something happened to one of them. He was above a cauldren of melted iron when the building was hit by a beam or ray that caused much damage. The man above fell into the molten iron just after he was hit by the beam which altered his body so that when he went into the vat instead of burning up he became a true "IronMan" and was able to climb out and cool off.
Assuming a very muscled man about 6'ft 2' and about 200 lbs.
Question: How heavy would he be at 100% iron? My son tells me that he could keep both states and turn on and off the ironman at will.
I looked up the specific gravity of iron, not steel, cast iron. Using him as a body of water at 1000 and iron at 7000 I'm assuming he would be seven times heavier than he was before. 7 x 200 = 1400lbs. That would be too heavy to climb stairs or walk across a wooden floor without damage, given the small surface area of one foot.
What do you think?
Suppose a few men were working in a steel plant and something happened to one of them. He was above a cauldren of melted iron when the building was hit by a beam or ray that caused much damage. The man above fell into the molten iron just after he was hit by the beam which altered his body so that when he went into the vat instead of burning up he became a true "IronMan" and was able to climb out and cool off.
Assuming a very muscled man about 6'ft 2' and about 200 lbs.
Question: How heavy would he be at 100% iron? My son tells me that he could keep both states and turn on and off the ironman at will.
I looked up the specific gravity of iron, not steel, cast iron. Using him as a body of water at 1000 and iron at 7000 I'm assuming he would be seven times heavier than he was before. 7 x 200 = 1400lbs. That would be too heavy to climb stairs or walk across a wooden floor without damage, given the small surface area of one foot.
What do you think?
Frank Reid
Reid Engineering Services of Utah





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So - 490/62.4 = 7.85 times as heavy or just round it off to 8 times heavier.
So about 1,600 lbs!!
Yes - he would wreck many things that he stepped on!! But the new codes might make it OK??
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Clearly you have not been paying attention...
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I doubt they could swim in their "steel state".
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The 'iron' man in this case must go through some processing to be made of steel as iron is fairly brittle, and would of course rust away quite quickly. He would do better to fall into a ladle of steel therefore to save some time.
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You are looking for The Man of Beryllium. 1800kg/m3.
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Beryllium also causes severe illness!
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In classic science fiction, you are allowed to change one scientific law, only. The story proceeds from this, obeying all the other laws in the process.
Your Hero, having been turned into cast iron, can battle evil villains who don't have armour piercing weapons, and he can eat Mexican food. He is no longer cuddly enough to pick up girls, and he has to deal with the fact that structures and modes of transport are not rated for his weight.
Your son will have to make a choice. As noted above, other superhero comics definitely are not classic science fiction.
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Hey, it could happen:)
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...but then if cows could fly, we'd be covered in ....
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...something much less dangerous than if Iron Men were flying, I am sure.
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