Okay, m1omg, since you are being so sweet and pleasant I'll put in my two cents.

Your talking about heating the atmosphere until the heavier gases can overcome the one gee of gravity and escape. That would take more than a molten surface to do. You would just make the atmosphere puff out more.

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