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Title: Can anyone show me a controlled demolition company that uses Thermate?
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Published: Jul 1, 2006
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Post Date: 2006-07-01 17:55:03 by Critter
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I find only that RDX is used in controlled demolitions. I can't find any link between thermite, or thermate and controlled demolition except on pages discussing 9/11.

I find this troublesome for the latest theories.

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#1. To: Critter (#0)

thermite is just a type of material that can be used to destroy. just as explosives can be used to destroy. probably it is cheaper to destroy with regular explosives than this thermite. the regular explosives they use are probably also easier to control and handle and store and use in this type of operation. Why would the people who destroyed the WTC buildings on 09/11/01 use thermite? Maybe you could ask them. Maybe money didn't matter to them. It seems obvious they used regular explosives throughout most of the building. but I think they used thermite at the base of the building. Otherwise why would the pools of molten steel be in the wreckage?

Red Jones  posted on  2006-07-01   18:02:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Red Jones (#1)

Otherwise why would the pools of molten steel be in the wreckage?

I don't know. I don't know lots of things. lol

What troubles me is a statement I read that thermite and thermate burn down, not across a metal, so if you applied it to the sides of columns, it would not cut through them.

I cant find any demo video showing thermite or thermate being used to cut any verticle steel. I see a few showing it burn through horizontal steel however.

I just like to be sure of things before I devote any effort to promoting a theory.

Do I hear a fat lady singing?

Critter  posted on  2006-07-01   18:10:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Critter (#0)

Those tube steel columns at the base were very thick. I believe the walls of the tube steel were 6" thick at the very lowest level. and they were something like 36" x 18". they were stacked edge to edge vertical and welded together so that it was basically a wall of steel 36" thick with little 6" hollow cores in each tube steel column. with that particular obstacle it may have been preferable to use thermite as thermite melts the steel. maybe almost no explosive could take down such a formidable thing. maybe they just chose to use it in that base. Remember, syracuse University recorded an earthquake of about 2.0-2.4 on Richter scale that lasted 10 seconds for each of the two buildings and occurred just before they fell. that is consistent with thermite explosives going off at the base. the base is bolted to bedrock. the base was under thermite attack - shaking like crazy as it melted. that's how thermite goes off, it takes a few seconds, not just an instant explosion. and as that thermite chemical continually interacted with the steel over time the steel was kept in a molten state. that molten steel was witnessed by many people at the bottom of the pile. the only explanation in my mind for these symptoms is either thermite or some other chemical that performs similarly with steel.

thermite is normally used as a military weapon I think. it is not normally used in building demolition or any other type of construction process.

Red Jones  posted on  2006-07-01   18:13:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Critter (#2)

my understanding of thermite is that it turns steel into a liquid blob or pool. it does not cut through like a welding torch would. it shakes the steel like crazy and turns it to liquid.

maybe it could be used like a shaped charge though and focused on one line of steel just as a welding torch blows burnint aceteline to make it able to cut. Maybe they can focus thermite the same way.

I feel that the towers were taken down by a professional demolition. but I also think there's bound to be a lot of disinformation for the sake of discrediting people and creating confusion.

Red Jones  posted on  2006-07-01   18:16:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Red Jones (#4)

I feel that the towers were taken down by a professional demolition. but I also think there's bound to be a lot of disinformation for the sake of discrediting people and creating confusion.

Same here.

I wish I could link up the two just to be sure.

Do I hear a fat lady singing?

Critter  posted on  2006-07-01   20:03:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Arator, Kamala (#0)

ping!

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christine  posted on  2006-07-01   20:08:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Critter (#0)

Fed:Thermite nasty stuff, but like fertiliser has legitimate use

AAP General News (Australia); 9/23/2004

AAP General News (Australia)

09-23-2004

Fed:Thermite nasty stuff, but like fertiliser has legitimate use

CANBERRA, Sept 23 AAP - The Anarchist's Cookbook describes thermite as nasty stuff and, like ammonium nitrate fertiliser which has been used to fuel car bombs, it has entirely legitimate uses.

Thermite is a mixture of powdered aluminium and iron oxide, or rust.

It burns at spectacularly high temperatures, as hot as 3,500 degrees Celsius, which is hot enough to melt steel.

That makes thermite particularly useful for welding. It is most commonly used to join the ends of railway lines.

Because the basic ingredients are so readily available, anyone with the inclination could produce their own thermite, aided by some very basic internet research.

However, it is relatively difficult to ignite and requires an ignition source much hotter that a cigarette lighter, for example.

Magnesium ribbon fuse appears to be the recommended method to ignite the substance.

There has been at least one workshop mishap in Australia where the use of a bench grinder produced the ingredients for a thermite reaction with the resulting fireball leaving the operator with serious burns.

Thermite is used in hand grenades and charges for military demolitions.

The US AN-M14 TH3 incendiary hand grenade contains about half a kilogram of a thermite compound called thermate.

AAP mb/cjh/tnf

KEYWORD: THERMITE USE

© 2004 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2006-07-01   20:12:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Critter (#0)

Critter..under Associates on the latest comments page is a link for Scholars For 911 Truth. It's outstanding. There's a link there for Professor Stephen Jones' Power Point Presentation -- http://www.physics.byu.edu/r esearch/energy/. Check it out.

Bring 'Em Home

christine  posted on  2006-07-01   20:34:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Jethro Tull, Christine (#7)

I'm looking for an instance where it was/is used for controlled demolition. The latest theory basically claims that it is commonly used for the purpose, yet I don't find mention of that anywhere except in articles related to this latest theory.

Like I said, I just like to double check things. :)

Do I hear a fat lady singing?

Critter  posted on  2006-07-01   20:56:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Critter, Starwind (#9)

ah...ok. lemme ping our *star* researcher then--Starwind.

Bring 'Em Home

christine  posted on  2006-07-01   21:36:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Critter (#9)

I'm looking for an instance where it was/is used for controlled demolition. The latest theory basically claims that it is commonly used for the purpose, yet I don't find mention of that anywhere except in articles related to this latest theory.

I don't imagine that any involved players will be advertising this technique today - if they ever did, it would be good to check with google cache, wayback, or some of the other archive resources.

Good luck, and keep us posted.

Lod  posted on  2006-07-01   21:41:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: lodwick, Christine, Jethro Tull, Red Jones (#11)

I know it's off topic (LMAO) but I found something interesting in my first search on Internt Archives.

FDNY 9/11 Dispatches

I haven't listened to any yet, but I am downloading one now. They are big files. This should be interesting listening.

Do I hear a fat lady singing?

Critter  posted on  2006-07-01   22:21:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: lodwick, Christine, Jethro Tull, Red Jones (#12)

Actually, you can listen to a stream of all these files.

Do I hear a fat lady singing?

Critter  posted on  2006-07-01   22:24:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Critter (#9)

It doesn't really matter what they actually used to demolish the twin towers and WTC7 with. We know they used *something*, but we can't be 100% sure what it was. It's only important to know they did it, not how they did it, or when they did it. One thing we know for sure, those buildings didn't come down due those planes hitting them and the resulting fires.

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RickyJ  posted on  2006-07-01   23:49:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Critter (#13)

I can't find any link between thermite, or thermate and controlled demolition except on pages discussing 9/11.

I find this troublesome for the latest theories.

Critter -- if you are really serious about gathering this information, here's what you do, in order(but only if you are the type that lies occasionally -- if not, don't do it):

1. Go through your 911 material and write down all the questions you can think of about thermite and other explosives used in demolition. Don't forget to ask about thermite-sulphur compounds.

2. Google and Yahoo search all of the smaller demolition companies you can find across the U.S. (there won't be many).

3. 411 all of the phone numbers you can get on them.

4. Take a day off work, pop a couple of beers to loosen you up and get to work calling your numbers. Now get ready to "pre-text" them -- tell them you are a reporter working on a story for a small town newspaper in(insert small non-existent town here, preferably in a state furthest from demolition companies headquarters).

5. Tell them you are very distressed about the all the nonsense floating around about all the "government did 911" theories, and that people in your small town are getting up in arms about it, and that you are working on a story to combat some of the nonsense. Tell them you need information to help prove that the government had nothing to do with it(this part is dependent solely on your personal ability to bullshit people with a straight face). If you are worried they may try to call the "newspaper" back(and thus discover that some phony guy just called asking about explosives), just tell them you work for a small, unregistered Republican non-profit and are working on the current newsletter. And don't feel guilty -- bounty hunters pre-text(lie) every day to catch their victims.

6. More than likely you will only get secretaries, but hopefully you will be put into contact with managers or field guys who know the business. Some of the companies' personnel may tell you to piss off, but don't get discouraged -- others will come through. Just keep telling them it's bad for America for people to believe 911 conspiracy rubbish.

7. Sit back and learn all you want to know about thermite and its use in demolition, whether it is popular in the industry or not, and don't forget to ask anyone you speak to why, in their opinion, "the crazies" would think that thermite might have been used in 911.

The answers might be interesting.

Nintendo of the Gods  posted on  2006-07-02   1:49:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Critter (#13)

I agree with Ricky J, it doesn't really matter what they actually used to demolish the twin towers and WTC7 with. In fact I still wouldn't be a bit surprised if we only knew the TRUTH of the matter to find they used a "suitcase nuke" in the basement. Wasn't there a machine shop in the basement of at least one of the buildings? What I'm getting at is that I think there would be a good chance of the ingredients for thermite (aluminum and iron oxide) being in those buildings all the time anyhow. A tiny nuke would not only provide enough power to blast the steel apart, but do a considerable amount of "rearranging" AND put out enough heat to melt both steel and iron oxide. Could that be the possible source of the thermite? But the BIG issue isn't what - it's WHO, and most of us are in agreement that BushCo is complicit in the event. Don't let them use the "divide and conquer" strategy on us over the issue of WHAT was used - which would fit their MO perfectly.....

"This country has come to feel the same when congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer." Will Rogers..... "None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." John Milton.....

innieway  posted on  2006-07-02   2:31:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Jethro Tull, christine (#7)

However, it is relatively difficult to ignite and requires an ignition source much hotter that a cigarette lighter, for example.

Magnesium ribbon fuse appears to be the recommended method to ignite the substance.

Magnesium ribbon is tough to ignite.

The best way, useing easy to obtain materials, to ignite thermite is to use a common fireworks sparkler.

I kid you not - the temperature they reach is perfect for thermite ignition, around 2100 C.

tom007  posted on  2006-07-02   2:40:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Critter (#0)

  The thermate was applied at a 45 degree angle to the main girders throughout the 3 buildings, and in the corner areas of the tower. The main core girders near the base were 4" thick, 26" wide, 52" long. Waterfalls of molten iron and metal can be seen in a couple videos., and it is not aluminum, as in its molten state, it is silver. Iron/metal is yellow/orange exactly like a thermate reaction.

  WTC 1 and 2 were not a "controlled" demo in as the only controlled aspect of it was the explosions and rolling explosions that destroyed the towers. I would call the towers a "controlled" explosion.

Now. WTC 7 was an implosion. As one explosive engineer said, WTC 7 was "beautiful", "a work of art".

  This was a high tech military opp. Conventional explosives were not use. Once the planning was done, this didn`t take as long as one would think. Most of the time of an implosion is spent on removing certain supports, covering areas in netting and fencing for safety.

  The structural steel used in these building was just too massive. A type of plastic based explosive was used as a strange molecule was found all over the WTC area. Dr Jones has discovered a nano thermite that is around 10 times as powerful as tnt. This would account for the pulverizing of everything into a almost talc/flour state. Also a top down explosion, has an umbrella effect, where the dust and debris hides some the visual aspects of explosives.

  The pools of molten iron are a product of thermate/thermite. Thermate is thermite with sulfur added. Steel from all 3 buildings had sulfadation. Pools of molten iron and metal were found 3 months later in the subbasements. It takes temps of around 4000 degrees to do this. Kersone or any hydrocarbon fire cannot produce this reaction.

  Here are some clips of WTC 7. This is clearly a demo implosion job. There is some debris squib ejection at the top right. These buildings were rigged to hide, as much as possible, any visual aspects of demolition, but it can still be seen. This building fell in 6.5 sec. An average of 1/7th of a sec per floor.

http://wtc7.net/vdocs/wtc_7_cbs.mpg

http://wtc7.net/vdocs/wtc7_collapse.mpg

http://wtc7.net/vdocs/wtc7_collapse2.mpg

http://wtc7.net/docs/streamers.jpg

http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/Flashes/squib4.jpg

http://www.dzgraphics.com/dzg20/911/WTC7/squibview.mpg

http://www.wtc-terrorattack.com/wtc7/collaps_wtc7.htm

  I know its not as exciting, but the prior warnings and paper trail of evidence is overwhelming. Nafeez Amed, Paul Thompson, and Webster Tarpley have excellent books.

  Norad being stripped and stood down, all the terror drills being run to piggy back the live drill inside the fake. Put and call options on the companies that would either benefit or lose by the attacks and the coming war. On and on it goes. You must do your own research. Nobody will convince you except you.

  This is already too long winded of a post for me. I could easily write a giant article, but it has already been done by others that are much more qualified.

If you have any questions or need links, please feel free to ask. I have over 300 links and sites pertaining to 911.

  Mark

Kamala  posted on  2006-07-02   7:34:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Kamala (#18)

well done.

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christine  posted on  2006-07-02   10:07:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: christine, critter (#10)

Can anyone show me a controlled demolition company that uses Thermate?

I can't find any link between thermite, or thermate and controlled demolition except on pages discussing 9/11.

I looked this up a while back and didn't find anything. I've checked again and there is nothing new, but I'll share the gist of my findings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Thermite gives an overview of the chemical reaction and its history. Note "thermit" and "thermate" are variants.

As for commercial applications, welding is the primary use, here's an example http://www. thermitwelding.demon.co.uk/profile.html and welding railroad rails together seems the most frequent.

There are no actual cites found for commercial cutting applications, but there are patent applications for improved thermite torches (see http: //patents.globalspec.com/search?query=%22thermite%20cutting%22&show=patents ) but no "cutting charges".

Nor can I find any military or defense suppliers of thermite cutting charges (or lances or rods for that matter). For example, goto http://www.the-dma.org.uk/Products/main.asp?Start=T which lists defense products and if you scroll to "thermite cutting charges" and click you get no manufacturers found.

Now it may be that information on where to get "thermite cutting charges" has been supressed in recent years, and maybe the military gets their own made up special and outside GSA-procurment, but legitimate commercial applications ought to still be listed if there were any (similar to those for welding) but there seemingly are none.

I find this troublesome for the latest theories.

Agreed.

There seems to be a lot of hypothetical presumption about "thermite cutting charges" and I've looked for the BYU professors paper on his thermite research and findings but it doesn't seem to be available yet (I don't mean his general paper http://www. physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html but supposedly he has a newer paper specifically "proving" the use of thermite). His general chemistry & physics seem to be in order, assuming "thermite cutting charges" are real items available commercially or militarily, but as mentioned above, I can't find any.

My simple understanding of the thermite reaction is that it is difficult to ignite and its reaction rate is not precisely controllable, which would seem to make it unreliable for controlled demolition wherein the timing of cutting through support beams and columns must be thorough and exact to a second or two, otherwise the structure won't collapse as planned. As the thermite reaction is also a slower burning rather than an explosion, it's cutting direction is downward where ever gravity pulls the 'molten thermite' (see http://www. amazingrust.com/Experiments/how_to/Thermite_pics-videos.html) which means making thermite cut laterally across vertical support columns (orthogonal to gravitational pull) instead of dripping/running down the sides would seem to add great difficulty to controlled demolition.

While "thermite cutting charges" provide plausible explanations for some of the WTC collapse phenomena, it also introduces some new complications, namely procurring said charges, installing them, and triggering them precisely. Whereas regular demolitions are procurable and triggerable, but still need to be placed/ installed without notice.

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Starwind  posted on  2006-07-02   12:20:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: Starwind, Kamala, Critter, innieway, Nintendo of the Gods (#20)

excellent, Starwind, thank you so much. again, there are more questions. nothing's ever cut and dry. we do know for a fact, though, that it's physically impossible for fires to have brought down those three buildings. it's not happened before, since, or ON 911.

Bring 'Em Home

christine  posted on  2006-07-02   12:33:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Starwind (#20)

Thanks for a very informative post. I pretty much found the same things.

I don't know what to make of the professor's work now.

I also checked another allegation made that the presence of sulfur can be very simply explained since all the sheetrock in the building contained a high sulfur content. I verified this at various internet sources.

Do I hear a fat lady singing?

Critter  posted on  2006-07-02   12:45:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: Kamala, *9-11* (#18)

great info and links!

robin  posted on  2006-07-02   14:43:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: Critter (#22)

  Boulderdash! If sulfur in drywall did this to the WTC buildings, where is all the other evidence of this sulfur erosion in all other fires in highrise buildings and homes and almost every structure in the US?

  Mark

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a1201eutectic

   December 2001: Scientific Journal Describes 'Eutectic Mixture' in WTC Steel

A sample of WTC steel eroded and corroded due to eutectic formations. [Source: FEMA]

  The Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (JOM) reports that the examination of a beam from the remains of WTC Building 7—which collapsed late in the afternoon of 9/11 (see (5:20 p.m.))—has revealed "unexpected erosion" of the steel.

The article states: "The formation of the eutectic mixture of iron oxide and iron sulfide lowers the temperature at which liquid can form in this steel. This strongly suggests that the temperatures in this region of the steel beam approached around 1,000�C, forming the eutectic liquid by a process similar to making a 'blacksmith's weld' in a hand forge." [Barnett, Biederman, and Sisson, 12/2001]

The New York Times will call this "perhaps the deepest mystery uncovered in the investigation." [New York Times, 2/2/2002] FEMA's World Trade Center Building Performance Study, released in May 2002 (see May 1, 2002), will add that the same "unusual erosion patterns" have been observed in a sample of the remaining structural steel from one of the twin towers. It will state, "This sulfur-rich liquid penetrated preferentially down grain boundaries of the steel, severely weakening the beam and making it susceptible to erosion." FEMA is unable to explain this phenomenon, saying, "The severe corrosion and subsequent erosion ... are a very unusual event. No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified. ...

  It is possible that this is the result of long-term heating in the ground following the collapse of the buildings. It is also possible that the phenomenon started prior to collapse and accelerated the weakening of the steel structure." [Federal Emergency Management Agency, 5/1/2002, pp. C-1 - C-13]

   Despite FEMA's call for further research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will make no mention of the eutectic formations in its final report into the WTC collapses, released in late 2005, following its three-year investigation. [National Institute of Standards and Technology, 9/2005 ]

http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/metallurgy/index.html

http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0112/Biederman/Biederman-0112.html

http://www.wpi.edu/News/Transformations/2002Spring/steel.html

Kamala  posted on  2006-07-02   15:21:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: Starwind, *ARG List* (#20)

  Dr Jones`s papers are multi peer reviewed. Thermate cuts like butter. Very fast. Placed at an angle, not flat, will slice girders. It is ignited by electronic "matches". This whole opp was radio/computer run.

  Thermate doesn`t explode, but nano thermite does. Very powerful. How else can oe explain pools of molten iron, metal and some copper. It takes around 4000 degrees for this.

  Mark

Kamala  posted on  2006-07-02   15:38:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: Kamala, Critter (#25)

Dr Jones`s papers are multi peer reviewed

that was the point i was going to make too. that's significant.

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christine  posted on  2006-07-02   15:41:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: christine, critter, starwind (#26)

http://wb11.trb.com/news/local/health/ny-hsair0911,0,4452966.story?coll=wpix-newshealth-3

One molecule, described by the EPA's Erik Swartz, was present at levels "that dwarfed all others": 1,3-diphenylpropane. "We've never observed it in any sampling we've ever done," Swartz said. He said it was most likely produced by the plastic of tens of thousands of burning computers.

....."Here I`ll help Erik, the molecule was from a plastic based explosive".....

Roger Clark of the U.S. Geological Survey's Colorado laboratory led a team that provided the first strong pollution data for the White House, delivered on Sept. 17.

Clark's team repeatedly flew over New York City collecting a criss-cross data set on readings and collected the first dust samples and submitted them for analysis in the USGS's lab. Their report said hotspots were burning at temperatures of up to 1,800 degrees.

....."Here I`ll help Roger. Kerosene can`t burn at 1800 degrees. It has to be force fed fuel and O2 and still can`t burn at that rate and can`t melt or weaken steel".....

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=14105&ch=nanotech

Military Reloads with Nanotech Smaller. Cheaper. Nastier. Those are the guiding principles behind the military's latest bombs. The secret ingredient: nanotechnology that makes for a bigger boom.

By John Gartner

Nanotechnology is grabbing headlines for its potential in advancing the life sciences and computing research, but the Department of Defense (DoD) found another use: a new class of weaponry that uses energy-packed nanometals to create powerful, compact bombs.

With funding from the U.S. government, Sandia National Laboratories, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are researching how to manipulate the flow of energy within and between molecules, a field known as nanoenergentics, which enables building more lethal weapons such as "cave-buster bombs" that have several times the detonation force of conventional bombs such as the "daisy cutter" or MOAB (mother of all bombs).

Researchers can greatly increase the power of weapons by adding materials known as superthermites that combine nanometals such as nanoaluminum with metal oxides such as iron oxide, according to Steven Son, a project leader in the Explosives Science and Technology group at Los Alamos.

"The advantage (of using nanometals) is in how fast you can get their energy out," Son says.

Son says that the chemical reactions of superthermites are faster and therefore release greater amounts of energy more rapidly.

"Superthermites can increase the (chemical) reaction time by a thousand times," Son says, resulting in a very rapid reactive wave.

...."Here I`ll help Steve. This stuff, in my opinion, completely pulverized into talc powder the towers"....

http://www.gieis.uni.cc/

    A newer site that has some info on thermite based copper and iron.

    Mark

Kamala  posted on  2006-07-02   16:56:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: Kamala (#25)

Thermate cuts like butter. Very fast. Placed at an angle, not flat, will slice girders.

Ok, so assuming a "thermate" cutting charge is somehow beaded around a vertical girder with the side beads running downward at an angle and the top and bottom beads run horizontal, upon ignition, what prevents the molten thermate from dripping down the vertical exterior faces of the girder and/or what causes the molten thermate to cut horizontally into the girder?

Even a bead placed at an angle, upon melting will drip down from its original angular bead along the exterior face of the girder. Gravity will not carry molten thermate horizontally from the bead into the girder to make the cut.

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Starwind  posted on  2006-07-02   17:02:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: Starwind (#28)

  Oh, there was dripping and running of iron by-product down the girders. This thermate takes seconds. One is not using a stop watch. A couple blinks of an eye, and its through. The sulfur mix is the key. It just eats steel up.

  Dr. Jones has pictures of this molten iron that is like stalactites and in other photos hanging down horizontally like a giant blob.

  You have to remember as these girders were cut through with thermate, other explosives were taking out other supports, which placed more stress, weakend and severed the beams.

  Mark

Kamala  posted on  2006-07-02   17:24:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: Kamala (#29)

You have to remember as these girders were cut through with thermate,

How did gravity carry molten thermite horizontally to cut into a vertical girder instead of dragging the molten thermite vertically down the exterior face of the girder?

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Starwind  posted on  2006-07-02   17:30:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: Starwind (#30)

  You are under the impression that gravity is needed for thermate to work. This is not the case with the sulfur mix. Dr. Jones work, I believe, shows this.

  I know that you are trying to put forth a middle, unbiased view. I wish others like yourself, would questioned the government theory as hard.

  Mark

Kamala  posted on  2006-07-02   17:38:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: Starwind (#30)

  There has been other info released at the conferences that isn`t online yet. Also Dr. Jones has more results that need more review from other outside sources.

  Mark

Kamala  posted on  2006-07-02   17:47:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: Kamala (#31)

You are under the impression that gravity is needed for thermate to work.

Not chemically, but gravity is what keeps the molten thermite in contact with the surface it is to cut or weld. If you don't believe that, what prevents the molten thermite from cutting sideways or upwards out its crucibles or molds? Why does it always cut and/or melt what is below it?

All the videos of thermite and the applications of welding rely upon gravity to pull the molten thermite down onto the target or into the weld joint sealed with a mold around it (such as the railroad rail welding applications). Even the torches and lances rely upon a continued supply of newly molten thermite held against the cut by the technician.

This is not the case with the sulfur mix.

I don't see how sulfur changes the gravitational problem posed. A faster hotter reaction does not change the rate at which gravity pulls it downward. Which falls faster - a molten 1lb brick or a frozen 1lb brick? It still does not address directing the molten thermite/thermate horizontally for "several" seconds into a girder that is several inches thick, rather than flowing down the face of that girder.

Dr. Jones work, I believe, shows this.

Dr. Jones has only shown the exothermic reaction explains some of the chemical and thermal phenomena. The paper in which he claims to have proven this ostensibly is undergoing peer review and has not been published yet. At least I have not seen it. So no, to the best of my knowledge Dr. Jones has not (yet) shown how thermate/thermite would be applied and controlled to cut in the direction needed.

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Starwind  posted on  2006-07-02   18:03:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: Starwind (#33)

  Chemically is the key. This sulfur mix is not only faster and hotter, it reacts with the steel and eats it up. Comparing welding techniques to this just can`t be done. Hopefully soon, Jones will put out his findings.

  How would you then explain the pools of iron at all 3 buildings?

   Mark

Kamala  posted on  2006-07-02   18:16:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: Kamala (#34)

This sulfur mix is not only faster and hotter, it reacts with the steel and eats it up.

Only as long it remains in contact with the surface, ie until gravity pulls it away.

Comparing welding techniques to this just can`t be done.

Well, thermite welding techniques do illustrate how/why thermite works to cut/ weld anything below it. But you're right insofar as there is no "thermite cutting charge" information against which to compare or apply to the current problem of cutting very thick vertical girders.

How would you then explain the pools of iron at all 3 buildings?

I don't have an explanation, nor have I read one that seems to fit all the facts, including the government's version. You wrote earlier to me:

I know that you are trying to put forth a middle, unbiased view. I wish others like yourself, would questioned the government theory as hard.
I'm simply following where the actual data available leads, no more, no less. I have no qualms about questioning the government's theory or anyone elses.

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Starwind  posted on  2006-07-02   18:26:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: Starwind (#35)

I'm simply following where the actual data available leads, no more, no less. I have no qualms about questioning the government's theory or anyone elses.

  Agreed. Good post and thread.

  Mark

Kamala  posted on  2006-07-02   18:35:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: Kamala (#36)

Agreed. Good post and thread.

i think so too. i appreciate the fact that you didn't get defensive. that's the proof of an openmind and a real truthseeker.

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christine  posted on  2006-07-02   19:54:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: Kamala (#31)

I wish others like yourself, would questioned the government theory as hard.

I question it as hard as anyone. But I am also aware that forces are at work to discredit the 9/11 truth movement, by pushing us down dead end streets, and dark allies, the "no plane hit the Pentagon" being one of them.

My reason for this thread was to find out if the thermate theory is just another one of those instances.

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Critter  posted on  2006-07-02   20:12:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: Kamala, Critter (#25)

Re: Sulfer

(from the Scolars for 911 Truth forum:)

"...nearly all the sulphur present is in sulphate form, calcium sulphate. All that will happen if you heat it in a kero fire is that any water present will be driven off. In fact that is the method used to make drierite, a dehydrating agent, obtained by heating to 650 deg C.

Even materials like rubber will, if burnt, release SO2, not free sulphur. To penetrate steel free sulphur would be required."

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valis  posted on  2006-07-03   0:22:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: Starwind, Kamala, ALL (#35)

It's hard to imagine where and how thermate would be usefull in bringing down a building like this, if you're not looking at the actual naked structure. So, I found a good view of the naked structure. :)

WTC Construction

Now I can see places where it could do a whole bunch of damage.

Do I hear a fat lady singing?

Critter  posted on  2006-07-03   0:30:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: All (#40)

And I also see why the official account can not have happened in a million years.

Do I hear a fat lady singing?

Critter  posted on  2006-07-03   0:34:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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