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Fueled by the white-hot graphite core of one of Chernobyl's four reactors, the runaway blaze burned at temperatures of up to 5000 degrees , or twice that of molten steel. The crippled reactor itself was unapproachable--too hot from the fire ravaging it, too dangerous radioactively. ''No one knows how to stop it,'' said one U.S. expert. ''It could take weeks to burn itself out.''
Firefighters have extinguished almost all but the last remnants of underground fires that have burned at the World Trade Center site for more than three months since the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.
The fires that began with the Sept. 11 attacks had been strong enough that firetrucks had to spray a nearly constant jet of water on them. At times, the flames slowed the work of clearing the site.
"You couldn't even begin to imagine how much water was pumped in there," said Tom Manley of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, the largest fire department union. "It was like you were creating a giant lake."
Originally posted by CameronFox
You will find that hot steel will continue to undergo "exotheric oxidation reactions" while explosed to air, causing Iron to increase its temperature until it melts forming pools of molten Iron.
Originally posted by CameronFox
You will find that hot steel will continue to undergo "exotheric oxidation reactions" while explosed to air, causing Iron to increase its temperature until it melts forming pools of molten Iron.
Originally posted by CameronFox
Hi Insol.... There are explinations as to why the fires burned so long. If you do a little research I'm sure you will find the appropriate information.
You will find that hot steel will continue to undergo "exotheric oxidation reactions" while explosed to air, causing Iron to increase its temperature until it melts forming pools of molten Iron.
Originally posted by CameronFox
Oxidation of iron by air is not the only EXOTHERMIC reaction of iron (= structural steel which is about 98 % Fe, 1 % Mn, 0.2 % C, 0.2 % Si.....). There is at least one additional reaction of iron with the capability of keeping the rubble pile hot and cooking!
But believe it or not, back at the turn of the century, the reaction of iron and steam was used as an industrial process for the manufacture of hydrogen.
Now add in gypsum reactions with H2 and CO and we have a great source of SO2 and/or H2S to sulfide the steel!
The rubble pile was not only inhomogeneous with regard to its composition, it was inhomogeneous with regard to its temperature. This was due to localized chemical reactions. Such reactions were capable of generating high temperatures in these localized hot spots.
Originally posted by CameronFox
There was plenty of water vapor AND oxygen in the void spaces in the rubble pile. This is the "steam" that is refferred to.
Please remember that the recovered pieces of structural steel were heavily OXIDIZED as well as sulfided. The most important oxidizing agents available in the rubble pile were obviously O2 and H2O.
Hot Spot (Kelvin)
A 1000
B 830
C 900
D 790
E 710
F 700
G 1020
H 820
Originally posted by kix
Id love to go to NY, and go to the ground Zero spot and close streets amd have a geiger counter with me and put some samples, I bet Id find a lot of Asbestos and weird readings totally unexplainable with the "official" explanations...
Unfortunatelly I cant...