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Title: Can anyone show me a controlled demolition company that uses Thermate?
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Published: Jul 1, 2006
Author: Self
Post Date: 2006-07-01 17:55:03 by Critter
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Comments: 98

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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#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   Untrace   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. :)

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


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

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

christine  posted on  2006-07-01   21:36:36 ET  Reply   Untrace   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.

Starwind  posted on  2006-07-02   12:20:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   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   Untrace   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.

Starwind  posted on  2006-07-02   17:02:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   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   Untrace   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?

Starwind  posted on  2006-07-02   17:30:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   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   Untrace   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.

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


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#42. To: Critter (#38)

  I`m on board with you on this. I have people wanting to talk about pods, lasers, holograms, etc..Also I won`t discuss much about the Pentagon or Shanksville, because I feel there just isn`t enough to go on, and its a dead end.

  Everyone can talk and follow what they wish, but I`m trying to get more citizens to question 911 and the surrounding events.

  Mark

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