From: Peter Webb on
At last, some semblance of reality on the subject of thermite.

For the record:

1. No "thermite" was found in the debris. Ingredients for thermite were
found, but these are simply Aluminium and Iron Oxide. Aluminium aircraft
hits steel framed building, of course there is going to be Al and FeO3 in
the ashes, the surprising thing would be if there was no Al or FeO3 in the
debris, as this would indicate either no aircraft or the the buildings steel
frame had disappeared.

2. Thermite is not explosive. It does not release gasses, and hence expand
in size, so generates no explosive force at all.

3. Thermite is (as its name implies) a reaction which causes heat. As you
point out, to generate enough heat to melt the girders a huge quantity of
thermite would be needed. Not a "nano-spray", but many kgs of the stuff in a
ceramic container so it remained attached to the girders while the (quite
slow) reaction proceeded. Thermite generates much less heat per gram than
burning kerosene/avgas; as there was 50 tons of burning avgas already, you
would need a couple of hundred tons of the stuff to make any real difference
to the heat of the conflagration.

4. If you want to "cut" steel girders, then thermite is completely hopeless.
Its not explosive, so it can't be used as a cutting agent. You use much
smaller quantities of very high explosive, for example shaped charges of C4.

5. There were undoubtedly traces of paper in the debris. That is mostly
cellulose, one of the two ingredients in nitrocellulose, a high explosive
far more suited to demolition. Instead of going on about the ingredients for
thermite being found in the debris, 9/11 kooks should go on about the debris
containing cellulose, the main ingredient of the powerful explosive
nitro-cellulose. There is the same evidence for nitro-cellulose as thermite,
and at least you could (in theory at least) cut steel beams with
nitro-cellulose if you had enough of it and could build containment
structures for the explosives.


From: Strabo on
Al Dykes wrote:
> In article <1e3c548e-d6e2-46db-835a-505fceadb3a6(a)m16g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
> <knews4u2chew(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 8, 4:51=A0pm, Iarnrod <iarn...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> On Jan 8, 1:08=A0pm, knews4u2c...(a)yahoo.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Even if the planes did knock out numerous floors of the WTC, like the
>>>> demolition charges in the video, the WTC buildings shouldn't have
>>>> turned to dust and pick-up stick sized beams.
>>>> And WTC 7 was hit by NOTHING.
>>> WTC7 was hit by WTC1, dearie.
>>>
>> So were about 14 other buildings.
>> Many had much more damage and fires than WTC 7.
>>
>
>
>
>
> WTC1, 2, and 7 were unigue. All the others has effective fireproofing.
>

Yep. They were insulated with asbestos.


From: CoalMineCanary on
In article
<aa211f53-41cf-464a-95f1-7410476d64cd(a)22g2000yqr.googlegroups.com>,
Darwin123 <drosen0000(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> > > > I pointed them out over an over and over and over.

Everyone knows 9/11 was an inside job.\
Some just can't believe it.
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From: knews4u2chew on
On Jan 15, 5:06 pm, "Peter Webb"
<webbfam...(a)DIESPAMDIEoptusnet.com.au> wrote:
> At last, some semblance of reality on the subject of thermite.
>
> For the record:
>
> 1. No "thermite" was found in the debris. Ingredients for thermite were
> found, but these are simply Aluminium and Iron Oxide. Aluminium aircraft
> hits steel framed building, of course there is going to be Al and FeO3 in
> the ashes, the surprising thing would be if there was no Al or FeO3 in the
> debris, as this would indicate either no aircraft or the the buildings steel
> frame had disappeared.
>
> 2. Thermite is not explosive. It does not release gasses, and hence expand
> in size, so generates no explosive force at all.
>
> 3. Thermite is (as its name implies) a reaction which causes heat. As you
> point out, to generate enough heat to melt the girders a huge quantity of
> thermite would be needed. Not a "nano-spray", but many kgs of the stuff in a
> ceramic container so it remained attached to the girders while the (quite
> slow) reaction proceeded. Thermite generates much less heat per gram than
> burning kerosene/avgas; as there was 50 tons of burning avgas already, you
> would need a couple of hundred tons of the stuff to make any real difference
> to the heat of the conflagration.
>
> 4. If you want to "cut" steel girders, then thermite is completely hopeless.
> Its not explosive, so it can't be used as a cutting agent. You use much
> smaller quantities of very high explosive, for example shaped charges of C4.
>
> 5. There were undoubtedly traces of paper in the debris. That is mostly
> cellulose, one of the two ingredients in nitrocellulose, a high explosive
> far more suited to demolition. Instead of going on about the ingredients for
> thermite being found in the debris, 9/11 kooks should go on about the debris
> containing cellulose, the main ingredient of the powerful explosive
> nitro-cellulose. There is the same evidence for nitro-cellulose as thermite,
> and at least you could (in theory at least) cut steel beams with
> nitro-cellulose if you had enough of it and could build containment
> structures for the explosives.

Sure, sure.....
http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCPJ/2009/00000002/00000001/7TOCPJ.SGM
From: Al Dykes on
In article <8Dl4n.24069$AO4.20188(a)newsfe02.iad>,
Strabo <strabo(a)flashlight.net> wrote:
>Al Dykes wrote:
>> In article <1e3c548e-d6e2-46db-835a-505fceadb3a6(a)m16g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
>> <knews4u2chew(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> On Jan 8, 4:51=A0pm, Iarnrod <iarn...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> On Jan 8, 1:08=A0pm, knews4u2c...(a)yahoo.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Even if the planes did knock out numerous floors of the WTC, like the
>>>>> demolition charges in the video, the WTC buildings shouldn't have
>>>>> turned to dust and pick-up stick sized beams.
>>>>> And WTC 7 was hit by NOTHING.
>>>> WTC7 was hit by WTC1, dearie.
>>>>
>>> So were about 14 other buildings.
>>> Many had much more damage and fires than WTC 7.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> WTC1, 2, and 7 were unigue. All the others has effective fireproofing.
>>
>
>Yep. They were insulated with asbestos.


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