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Originally posted by Thermo Klein
There are a million things that could react like this.
Thermites can be a diverse class of compositions. The fuels are often aluminium, magnesium, calcium, titanium, zinc, silicon, and boron. The oxidizers can be boron(III) oxide, silicon(IV) oxide, chromium(III) oxide, manganese(IV) oxide, iron(III) oxide, iron(II,III) oxide, copper(II) oxide, and lead(II,III,IV) oxide.[1]
The most common thermite is aluminium-iron(III) oxide.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Wikipedia only has these:
Thermites can be a diverse class of compositions. The fuels are often aluminium, magnesium, calcium, titanium, zinc, silicon, and boron. The oxidizers can be boron(III) oxide, silicon(IV) oxide, chromium(III) oxide, manganese(IV) oxide, iron(III) oxide, iron(II,III) oxide, copper(II) oxide, and lead(II,III,IV) oxide.[1]
The most common thermite is aluminium-iron(III) oxide.
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Originally posted by jprophet420
in what possible fashion could the (theoretic) plaster and aluminum reaction on the upper levels influenced all of the floors beneath it to simultaneously give?
And how could it happen in WTC7?
Answer those questions and ill begin to give your theory some merit.
Originally posted by Nutter
Interesting. I noticed you bolded the calcium (i.e. the Ca part of the CaSO4). Now, going by this informaion, is it possible that a thermitic reaction occured with the Calcium and aluminum and became thermate by the addition of the SO4?
I'm not a chemist so I don't know the exact stoiciometry of the elements, but it seems to me that at least we have the ingredients for a natural thermitic reaction to take place.
Originally posted by Nutter
And how could it happen in WTC7?
The aluminum from WTC 2's facade fell into WTC 7 with some force behind it. Possibly starting the same type of reactions?
Originally posted by bsbray11
The debris that hit WTC7 was from WTC1 and yeah I wouldn't really buy that theory anyway. It has to be powder aluminum mixed with the plaster.