by darkbeforedawn » Sun May 07, 2006 10:47 am
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://canadianspectator.ca/">canadianspectator.ca/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>7 May 2006 <br>Thermite <br>Thermite is a noun, easy to spell, easy to pronounce. It refers to a class of exothermic reactions between, typically, a metal and an oxide. That doesn't seem hard to understand.<br><br>An example of a thermitic reaction is that between iron oxide and aluminum. This reaction generates temperatures above 2000 degrees Celcius, well above the melting point of iron. Suitably placed, a thermite charge is thus able to slice through steel like a knife through butter.<br><br>Why would anyone care about thermite. Well apparently they don't. Not that one can tell from the corporate media at least. For as this Web search indicates, not a single major corporate news source has a story about thermite?<br><br>There you are then, why worry about it. <br>Search Google News for "Thermite"<br><br><br>Thermite and the Collapse of the World Trade Towers<br>Dramatic footage reveals yellow-to-white hot molten metal dripping from the South WTC Tower just minutes before its collapse. Photographs capture the same significant event, clearly showing liquid metal dropping from the South Tower, still hot as it nears the ground below. Who can deny that liquid, molten metal existed at the WTC disaster? The yellow color implies a molten-metal temperature of approximately 1000 C, evidently above that which the dark-smoke hydrocarbon fires in the Towers could produce. If aluminum (e.g., from the plane) had melted, it would melt and flow away from the heat source at its melting point of about 650 oC and thus would not reach the yellow color observed for this molten metal. Thus, molten aluminum is already ruled out with high probability. But molten iron with the characteristics seen in this video is in fact consistent with a thermite-reaction attacking the steel columns in the Tower, thus weakening the building just prior to its collapse, since thermite produces molten iron at yellow-to-white hot temperatures. <br>Prof. Stephen E. Jones <br><br> <p></p><i></i>
