On Monday 01 Oct 2007 9:07 pm, Venkat Mangudi wrote: > http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2893860.ece
Quote: > kerosene burns at 820C under optimum conditions, how come the steel beams of >the twin towers – whose melting point is supposed to be about 1,480C – would >snap through at the same time? (They collapsed in 8.1 and 10 seconds.) I have read a couple of explanations for this but the urls are long gone a) It's the Aluminium of the plane that burns really hot. b) The water of hydration of concrete evaporates off and it loses is strength. shiv
