Title: Can anyone show me a controlled demolition company that uses Thermate? Source:
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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.
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.