Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastr
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
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Authors: Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley, Bradley R. Larsen
doi: 10.2174/1874412500902010007
Abstract
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. Examination of four of these samples, collected from separate sites, is reported in this paper. These red/gray chips show marked similarities in all four samples. 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). The red material contains grains approximately 100 nm across which are largely iron oxide, while aluminum is contained in tiny plate-like structures. Separation of components using methyl ethyl ketone demonstrated that elemental aluminum is present. The iron oxide and aluminum are intimately mixed in the red material. When ignited in a DSC device the chips exhibit large but narrow exotherms occurring at approximately 430 °C, far below the normal ignition temperature for conventional thermite. Numerous iron-rich spheres are clearly observed in the residue following the ignition of these peculiar red/gray chips. The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic.
Keywords: JScanning electron microscopy, X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy, Differential scanning calorimetry, DSC analysis, World Trade Center, WTC dust, 9/11, Iron-rich microspheres, Thermite, Super-thermite, Energetic nanocomposites, Nano-thermite
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK-2100, Denmark.
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Phuck You
04-03-2009
Galileo
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Originally Posted by sook
Phuck You
Sorry, the joke is on you and the mental pygmies.
You lose.
04-03-2009
sook
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Originally Posted by Galileo
Sorry, the joke is on you and the mental pygmies.
You lose.
I actually agree with your theory by the way. The biggest joke of all though is Israel convincing the tools in this country that their interests coincide with ours as they molest our image around the world.
04-03-2009
ChumpDumper
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Rust and aluminum? Yeah, that could only come from thermite.
Holyshit i love that GIF. Thanks bud, i will save it.
04-03-2009
Cant_Be_Faded
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No doubt in my mind Dumper would go out of his way to comment as soon as possible. He would rip his chode open rick rickertt style if the 9/11 commission report were disproved.
04-03-2009
ChumpDumper
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I would be surprised, to say the least. Nonetheless, twoofers are still currently failing, so I'm not too concerned about its actually happeneing.
04-04-2009
smeagol
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sook
I actually agree with your theory by the way. The biggest joke of all though is Israel convincing the tools in this country that their interests coincide with ours as they molest our image around the world.
:rolleyes x 1000000000
04-04-2009
France B-boy
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ChodeChomper is always asking for proof of explosives during 9/11 and when someone finally post some he calls it a lie?
Why bother?
04-04-2009
Wild Cobra
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Originally Posted by ChumpDumper
Rust and aluminum? Yeah, that could only come from thermite.
Yep, show how really dumb these conspiracy theorists really are.
Lets see... Iron oxide is rust... Doesn't steel rust under one of several conditions, including being expose to oxygen and heat.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it was a steel building. I guess these guys think it was made of titanium.
What is the primary metal that airplanes are made of? Isn't it aluminum?
Apparently, the likes of Galileo don't know these elemental truths.
04-04-2009
Wild Cobra
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Originally Posted by France B-boy
ChodeChomper is always asking for proof of explosives during 9/11 and when someone finally post some he calls it a lie?
Why bother?
Don't you get it?
Anyone with an ounce of intelligence would expect iron oxide and aluminum to be found together in the aftermath. It's expected when you combime aluminum, steel, and heat!
Absolutely ZERO proof of thermite.
04-04-2009
ChumpDumper
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Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
What is the primary metal that airplanes are made of? Isn't it aluminum?
The cladding on the facade of the towers was also aluminum.
Quote:
Apparently, the likes of Galileo don't know these elemental truths.
Nice pun.
04-04-2009
Aggie Hoopsfan
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
Don't you get it?
Anyone with an ounce of intelligence would expect iron oxide and aluminum to be found together in the aftermath. It's expected when you combime aluminum, steel, and heat!
Absolutely ZERO proof of thermite.
Game, set, match.
04-04-2009
Winehole23
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Originally Posted by Aggie Hoopsfan
Game, set, match.
04-04-2009
PixelPusher
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Active Thermitic Material Discovered...
If it were "active", wouldn't that mean it was still burning?
04-04-2009
Obstructed_View
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Guys, you can go pick up the gravel in your back yard and find "thermitic material" in it.
By the way, Galileo, what exactly is your theory of what happened on 9/11? A jumbo jet loaded with fuel is more than sufficient to cause the building to collapse exactly the way it did. What's the need for anything extra?
04-04-2009
Galileo
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Originally Posted by Obstructed_View
Guys, you can go pick up the gravel in your back yard and find "thermitic material" in it.
By the way, Galileo, what exactly is your theory of what happened on 9/11? A jumbo jet loaded with fuel is more than sufficient to cause the building to collapse exactly the way it did. What's the need for anything extra?
maybe the hijackers brough super thermite or supern thermate onto the planes, along with their box-cutters?
04-04-2009
Obstructed_View
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Originally Posted by Galileo
maybe the hijackers brough super thermite or supern thermate onto the planes, along with their box-cutters?
Possible. Maybe they sneaked it in their laptop bags. Surely a 150 ton airplane travelling 600 miles an hour, twenty thousand gallons of burning jet fuel and several acres of office equipment burning for two hours couldn't have brought down the building by themselves.
04-04-2009
Galileo
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Scientists find active 'super-thermite' in WTC dust
A team of nine scientists have released a startling new report on the events of 9/11, using data from dust gathered in the days and weeks after the towers came down. They discovered that scattered throughout the dust samples were red and gray chips of 'active thermitic material', or an un-reacted pyrotechnic explosive.
Thermite is used in steel welding, fireworks shows, and hand grenades. It is the combination of a metal powder and a metal oxide which produce a reaction known for extremely high temperatures focused in a very small area for a short period of time. The 'active thermitic material' discovered in the World Trade Center dust was a combination of elemental aluminum and iron oxide, and is a form of thermite known as 'nano-structured super-thermite'.
“These observations reminded us of nano-thermite fabricated at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and elsewhere; available papers describe this material as an intimate mixture of UFG[Ultra-fine grain] aluminum and iron oxide in nano-thermite composites to form pyrotechnics or explosives. Commercially available thermite behaves as an incendiary when ignited, but when the ingredients are ultra-fine grain and are intimately mixed, this 'nano-thermite' reacts very rapidly, even explosively, and is sometimes referred to as 'super-thermite',” the report explains.
The full article in The Open Chemical Physics Journal can be found here.
Some of the authors of the paper have lost their jobs at universities and chemistry labs for their outspoken breakdown of what happened at the World Trade Center on 9/11. Kevin Ryan lost his job as a lab director after writing a letter to the National Institute for Standards and Technology(NIST was conducting an investigation into 9/11 at the time) challenging the common theory that burning jet fuel weakened the steel supports holding up the 110-story skyscrapers. Ryan claims that the owner of his laboratory subsidiary "was the company that certified the steel components used in the construction of the WTC buildings,” according to the South Bend Tribune. Dr. Steven E. Jones, a physicist at Brigham Young University, presented a paper in 2005 discussing alternative theories to the commonly accepted 'jet fuel' reasoning. In September 2006 he was placed on paid administrative leave and his paper was removed from the BYU database.
Jones has told Visibility911.com, "In short, the paper explodes the official story that 'no evidence' exists for explosive/pyrotechnic materials in the WTC buildings."
It remains to be seen if this study will encourage further investigation into the events of 9/11, or if anyone will come forth with a legitimate reason as to why nano-structured super-thermite can be found in dust produced by the collapse of the World Trade Centers.
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Wake Up and Smell the Aluminothermic Nanocomposite Explosives
As Documentation of Thermitic Materials
in the WTC Twin Towers Grows,
Official Story Backers Ignore, Deny, Evade, and Dissemble
by
Jim Hoffman
Version 1.0, April 3, 2009
Introduction
The obliteration of the Twin Towers was the centerpiece of the event that launched the 'War on Terror'. Shocking on multiple levels, the events were especially traumatic for Americans, being the first bombing on the US mainland in modern history that killed thousands of people -- civilians -- in one day. Given the collective psychological trauma of the attack, it is not surprising that public discourse would remain free of observations that the destruction of the Twin Towers bore obvious features of controlled demolitions. Early candid public remarks by reporters and demolition experts where quickly retracted or forgotten. Passage of the USA PATRIOT Act and the invasion of Afghanistan would proceed apace.
By 2003 the United States had two occupations, and an international reputation as a rogue state all resting on a shaky-at-best collapse theory whose principle alternative hypothesis -- controlled demolition with pre-planted pyrotechnics -- had not even been tested by the straightforward forensic analysis of debris for residues of such materials.
By early 2009, the residue testing that NIST refused to do had been done by independent researchers, and published in a chemistry journal. Small bi-layered chips, found consistently in dust samples, have layers of red nano-engineered material that is clearly aluminothermic: it has sub-micron-diameter particles of largely of elemental aluminum, and smaller crystalline grains of primarily Fe2O3. On ignition, the chips produce temperatures above the melting point of iron, leaving tiny iron droplets matching the residues of commercial thermite pyrotechnics.
The publication of these results should be astounding to anyone who uncritically accepted the collapse explanations in TV documentaries and never looked seriously at any of the several bodies of evidence for controlled demolition.
The NIST investigation, having posted its Final Report with its absurd Building 7 joint-breaking-thermal-expansion theory in late 2008 and FAQ by Christmas, closed its doors before the independent researchers published their findings of active aluminothermic materials in WTC dust in a mainstream scientific journal; but not before they publicized findings of aluminothermic residues in the same dust samples; and not before they extracted from NIST a series of public statements, in press conferences and in written responses to requests for corrections (RFCs), about the conduct of their inquiry into the cause of the skyscrapers' total destruction.
ABEL: ... what about that letter where NIST said it didn’t look for evidence of explosives?
NEUMAN: Right, because there was no evidence of that.
ABEL: But how can you know there’s no evidence if you don’t look for it first?
NEUMAN: If you’re looking for something that isn’t there, you’re wasting your time....
--Conversation between a reporter and a NIST spokesperson. source
As a result, NIST spokespersons are on the record saying they did not test for pyrotechnics, and offering rationale for failing to test. Those rationale -- or rationalizations -- summarized toward the end of this essay, include the assertion that testing for pyrotechnics "would not necessarily have been conclusive". That is partially true: failing to find pyrotechnic residues wouldn't rule out demolition, since demolition might have been implemented using an untraceable fuel such as hydrogen gas. But finding abundant and distributed pyrotechnic explosive residues would conclusively favor demolition -- particularly given the persuasive deductive arguments showing that the features of the buildings' destruction are incompatable with a purely gravity-driven collapse.
The following timeline is narrowly focused on the emergence of public evidence indicating the use of aluminothermic pyrotechnics -- ranging from incendiaries to high-explosives -- in the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7, and on the response of official investigations -- particular NIST's -- to that evidence.
