Put on your tin hats: Scientists find "explosive chemical" in WTC site

[CptStern]

A team of scientists claim to have unearthed startling data from dust and debris gathered in the days and weeks after the World Trade Center towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001.

In a study published by the Open Chemical Physics Journal -- a peer-reviewed, scientific publication -- Steven E. Jones and Niels Harrit level a stark allegation: that within the dust and rubble of the World Trade Center towers lays evidence of "a highly engineered explosive," contrary to all federal studies of the collapses.

"We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center," reads the paper's abstract. "One sample was collected by a Manhattan resident about ten minutes after the collapse of the second WTC Tower, two the next day, and a fourth about a week later. The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)."

They claim their analysis has uncovered "active thermitic material": a combination of elemental aluminum and iron oxide in a form of thermite known as "nanostructured super-thermite."

Thermite, used in steel welding, fireworks shows, hand grenades and demolition, can produce a chemical reaction known for extremely high temperatures focused in a very small area for a short period of time.

According to the Navy's Small Business Innovation Research, super-thermite "is restricted under the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), which controls the export and import of defense-related material and services."

however:

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, which investigated the WTC tower collapses, maintains there was no recovered evidence of explosive materials

"We get a lot of calls from people who have heard these theories," NIST spokesman Michael Newman told Newsday. "But we conducted what was probably the most complex investigation of a building collapse in history."

"We based our conclusion on the talents of the world's best engineers and scientists, state of the art computer models and 236 pieces of steel recovered from the site," reads the NIST FAQ.

"The collapse of the WTC towers was not caused either by a conventional building fire or even solely by the concurrent multi-floor fires that day," NIST says. "Instead, NIST concluded that the WTC towers collapsed because: (1) the impact of the planes severed and damaged support columns, dislodged fireproofing insulation coating the steel floor trusses and steel columns, and widely dispersed jet fuel over multiple floors; and (2) the subsequent unusually large, jet-fuel ignited multi-floor fires weakened the now susceptible structural steel."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Scientists_find_active_superthermite_in_WTC_0404.html

 

[Shakermaker]

Thermite is used as solid rocket fuel for sea-launched cruise missiles. Solid fuel boosters launch a tomahawk; when it's airborne the jet engine kicks in. Kathaksung will probably tell us the details.

 

[CptStern]

it's obvious that kathaksung's CIA weather machine blew a cruise missile at the wtc ..it just happened to be in the shape of an airplane

 

[Maturin]

It's scientifically proven than an airplane can destroy a skyscraper. So the government wanted to use planes as the detonator to a bomb already in place... why exactly? Oh I know! They wanted the towers to collapse and spell out the words SADDAM DID IT but, being the federal government, they were just too damn incompetent to pull off anything even approaching that level of complexity.

 

[Mr Stabby]

Considering how brightly thermite burns, wouldn't the towers have lit up like christmas trees while collapsing.

 

[Dog--]

It says it was used in steel welding..

I mean, I'm no architect (gasp!), but when a building like that gets built, isn't there one or two palces where they... Weld?

And even then, I'm sure there has been repairs done to it over time.

And then there the chance the terrorists never intended to smash the plane into the building, things just got ****ed and they decided to, but they already had that thermite on board?

 

[bbson john]

Wasn't it take kilotons of thermite to bring down the whole WTC

 

[DEATHMASTER]

moar conspiracy!

 

[Warped]

you know when you hear whackos like Alex Jones talk about sheep?? well when everyone is playing wolf and sheep.....i'm playing the dog role. sleeping on the sofa and eating lots of food chewing on things

 

[Jintor]

Oh, right, can't post images in Politics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Sheepdog_and_Ralph_Wolf

 

[Top Secret]

Thermite, used in steel welding

Erm...

STOP FEEDING THE TROLLS STERN

 

[Vigilante]

where's kathaksung?

 

[hool10]

Thermite is used to weld railroad tracks, not building skyscrapers.

 

[Vegeta897]

Maybe they were building a railroad in the WTC, did you ever think of that!?

 

[swan_song1973]

not this shit again.

 

[bbson john]

By the way, the piece of news itself is inaccurate. I don't think thermite is anyway a "high explosive". A high explosive chemical detonates with a high velocity shock wave. Thermite never detonates. It just burns. Though it releases a very intense heat, it is still just a fire.

 

[gFrohman]

No, thermite is not explosive. It's still f**king dangerous, and it burns like crazy, but no, it's not an explosive. Jet fuel is also dangerous and burns like crazy.
Sorry - I'm a bit tired of all the conspiracy theorists right now; so much ridiculous finger-pointing...

 

[Mr Stabby]

Thermite in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdCsbZf1_Ng&feature=related

 

[unozero]

Thermite is used to weld railroad tracks, not building skyscrapers.

just say it then,your a conspiracy nut.

 

[Minister]

The amount of thermite needed to bring the WTC down would not only be a ridiculously huge amount but would also make the rubble pile far too hot to approach for hours afterwards. That's without mentioning thermite usually only goes downward, other than that it's pretty uncontrollable.


The evidence for how the WTC fell is so overwhelming I don't know how conspiracy theorists are still around.

 

[G(ordon)-man]

http://portland.indymedia.org/media/images/2006/04/338229.jpg

Is that sum thermite?

 

[Minister]

http://www.debunking911.com/thermite.htm