Yes, thermite, at least the more comonly used stuff, is iron II oxide and aluminum powder. it reduces the aluminum to aluminum oxide, and creates molten iron. So you get molten iron, which cools black and lumpy, and you get a blackish purplish slag laying on top of it, which is the aluminum oxide. the cooled metal there looks to me like melted cooled aluminum, not iron. its too smooth, thin, and silvery.
On 2/20/07, Jones Beene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
leaking pen wrote: > not a skeptic, but, with the flow inside and out of the girder almost > even, that one looks more like it sheared off at an angle, and then > molten metal dripped over it. Exactly. Anyone who says the NIST report somehow eliminated thermite as contributory agent is seriously in error. They never considered it at all. From the NIST site: Did the NIST investigation look for evidence of the WTC towers being brought down by controlled demolition? Was the steel tested for explosives or thermite residues? Answer: NIST did not test for the residue of these compounds in the steel. IOW the only tests which were done looking for residue of thermite- those of Steven Jones FOUND thermite residue. Did he plant that residue there? Here is the only scientific report ever to consider the details of a contributory agent: http://physics911.net/thermite But the report is careful not to say that there was thermite present since NO AGENCY including NIST had ever tested for the residue. Steven Jones was the first to test for it - and he found it. Not conclusive - but once again - it is making the case to reopen the shoddy NIST investigation with a true scientific investigation > and, as someone that uses the stuff, that is NOT what thermite > leftovers looks like. Hmm. Would you care to explain that. Jones
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