X-ray Spectrometry Proves Thermite Present in WTC Debris

Just when did this Professor do his test ? As dust was still falling or months later in a junk yard with cut off beams or in the bottom where the beams were cut out ...

Give it up. Martin

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Jim34 wrote:

"The highly specialized compound 'thermate (sp?)'" if thermite ain't that special. Iron oxide (rust) and aluminum powder. Let's see, girders and two passenger jets. After the thermite reaction and a huge fire, you'd just have iron which would probably then oxidize, and aluminum oxide. A perfect match to the combustion products of thermite doesn't prove a damn thing.

Pete Keillor

I never really thought about it, but according to Wikipedia:

"Thermate is an incendiary pyrotechnic composition, a thermite-like compound used for military applications. Thermate, whose primary component is thermite, also contains sulfur and sometimes barium nitrate, both of which increase its thermal effect, create flame in burning, and significantly reduce the ignition temperature. Various mixtures of these compounds can be called thermate, but, to avoid confusion with Thermate-TH3, one can refer to them as thermite variants or analogs. The composition by weight of Thermate-TH3 (in military use) is 68.7% thermite, 29.0% barium nitrate, 2.0% sulfur and

DJ

Ever take an office complex and render it down to a mass spec ?

The plastics are filled with sulfur - the foams and rubbers. The rugs can give off arsenic and the varnishes... Talk to a fireman. Nightmare nowadays in a fire. A trailer fire is worse as the foam in the walls and massive plastic...

Then add the airframe material and internal hoses, chemicals used in control hoses and fuel and cleaning (blue ice..) The pool of chemical - and I don't want to think of the people in the mix.

Martin

Mart> >

Add in all the chemicals found in the various janitors closets, restaurant kitchens, facilities shops... Not much of any compound you wouldn't expect to find in the combined pulverized debris...