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Originally posted by VirginiaRisesYetAgain
Can you provide a source for your claim that simple combustion can produce the temperatures required for iron to be melted and form tiny spheres? Because those were produced by the reaction, unless you must resort to calling the authors of the paper outright liars as to what they observed.
Reacting under an inert gas would be redundant and irrelevant information given that (1) the reaction produces the iron spheres and (2) there is oxygen at the WTC so that this reaction could occur exactly as it did in the lab.
Originally posted by SteveR
Well, since you have now decided you aren't supporting 'chips are thermite' assertion.
Originally posted by Doctor Smith
So I guess it's thermite (military nano thermate)? Anyone have any other ideas?
So far no one has any other valid hypothesis of what else it could be.
The scientists that wrote that paper are incompetent. The chips they found were just paint chips from the heat-resistant primer coating the support beams.
According to NIST the primer paint contains large amounts of chromium, magnesium and zinc [9] but only trace amounts of chromium and zinc are sometimes found in the red/gray chips. Such primers are designed to be highly heat resistant. The red/gray chips ignite at 430C. According to NIST the primer paint does not ignite even at 800 C. Such primers are designed to be heat resistant not explosive.
Unless "butcher" wants to carry on his thoughts of the chips being being materials and human remains then apparently no, no one else is ready to present a positive identification that matches all data.
Originally posted by pteridine
Ginny,
As I have explained many times, no iron spheres were formed. Iron containing spheres were formed. Their temperature of formation is not known.
Reaction under an inert gas is necessary to show the possibility of thermite. No reaction: No possibility of thermite. Reaction: May be thermite
This will allow differentiation between the combustion that we know is occurring and other reactions that don't need oxygen, such as thermite.
Originally posted by VirginiaRisesYetAgain
are we actually going to be able to agree that the substance is yet to be positively identified and will be subject to further investigation?
Originally posted by VirginiaRisesYetAgain
If you were really interested in the truth, REALLY interested, you would NOT come onto these forums to waste your time arguing with people like me. You would JOIN people like me in confronting confused people like yourself who think these official investigations were case closed. They weren't. You should at least know THAT much by now. I am not going to do a better investigation for you. Not unless you want to give me a few million dollars, subpoena power, and access to whatever evidence I desire to see. And good luck getting anyone that kind of access outside of the feds' exclusive circles. You can take their defense too if you want to accept their burden but you already know it would be an uphill battle defending that garbage.
The best match is red paint until Jones does the key experiment. After that, the best match will likely still be red paint.
Originally posted by TrickoftheShade
See, this is where I totally disagree with you. As far as I'm concerned the Truth Movement actually harms the chances of a proper investigation into the failures in the run-up to 9/11 because so many of its ideas are so self-evidently ludicrous.
You're all looking in the wrong place - coincidentally in the one that is most exciting and makes you feel cleverest
Originally posted by pteridine
reply to post by turbofan
Sure. What is the proposed title?