Some Misunderstandings Related to WTC Collapse Analysis

[Jeffrey Orling]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...LyYv5Y2YSM

There might be a few ways to get iron microspheres, as all you need to do is make the iron molten and spray it somehow to cause surface tension to form it into a sphere.

However, the by-products of thermite are molten iron and aluminum oxide, and the real interesting part about the thermitic residue found in the dust of the WTC collapses is that when it is ignited it forms iron microspheres and a small chip of it formed a lot more microspheres than Dave Thomas seemed to get out of his box beam section.

You can't be seriously claiming that Dave Thomas' little experiment, that he actually did last summer, is a solid explanation for iron microspheres in the WTC dust, especially since they were found with thermitic material and the thermitic material produces iron microspheres when ignited.

I didn't claim anything. But Harrit claimed that there was only one way to form iron microspheres and this proves him wrong.

Remember RJ Lee?

Quote:
"Iron Microspheres in the Context of the World Trade Center Dust
Well, let's start with the basics. The World Trade Center was a building with many iron‐based components. There were structural components such as beams and electrical conduit. There were building contents such as desks and file cabinets.

Now, the building is hit by two jet airplanes resulting in a fire fed by jet fuel. The electrical system is compromised resulting in high voltage, high amperage electrical arcing between the wires and the conduit. The fire is in a building with a central core of elevator shafts that act like a chimney efficiently providing the oxygen needed for combustion. The air and other gasses are flowing with hurricane force speeds. The fire is sufficiently hot to exceed the plastic strength of the structural steel and the building collapses.

What about the iron microspheres? The iron has a thin layer of rust flakes that can be easily removed by sticky tape. The iron is heated red hot or hotter and subjected to hurricane force blast furnace like wind. The iron flakes are liberated as small particles and some iron is vaporized. Like drops of water, the iron flakes form molten spheres that solidify and the fume also condenses into spheres, the most efficient geometrical form. Incidentally, iron is not the only material that formed spheres during the event. Some building material is made of minerals containing aluminum and silicon and alumino‐silicate spheres were also observed in the dust.

The formation of iron and other type spheres at temperatures obtainable by the combustion of petroleum or coal based fuels is not a new or unique process. These spheres are the same as iron and alumino‐silicate spheres in the well‐studied fly ash formed from contaminants in coal as it is burned in furnaces."
Rich Lee