Iron is actually "made" in the silicon-burning process, in a sufficiently large star, from the perspective of stellar nucleosynthesis. It would be fair to say

Iron is actually "made" in the silicon-burning process, in a sufficiently large star, from the perspective of stellar nucleosynthesis. It would be fair to say that this guy is refining iron. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon-burning_process https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon-burning_process