27-10-2015, 06:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 27-10-2015, 06:53 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
Drew Phipps Wrote:Peter: This guy (Chandler's) premise is that the debris flying outward are steel beams with partly undetonated nanothermite, which according to Chandler, its continuing combustion causes the trails of white smoke and the apparent direction and speed changes of the flying girders.
Are you saying that the nanothermite burns too quickly to still be affecting the beams after they leave the vicinity of the building, i.e. that Chandler is wrong (at least in this premise)?
No. Not necessarily. We do not know how the nanothermite was placed and how the electronic timers or detonators were programmed. It is possible that they are going off on a beam that is already being blown away by an earlier detonation. All I'm saying is any individual reaction is quick [not instantaneous]...a few seconds to several seconds usually [can be set to be longer]. However, the reaction products of aluminum oxide powder is going to be there at the site of the reaction and is fairly inert, but will react to wind/air currents and form streamers as a beam with it on it sails through the air. Either way, a white powdery trail is possible. I think the second scenario is more likely, but we don't know and I don't think pictures can tell that, per se....only knowing how and where the charges were placed would tell that....and from the way the buildings came down we can and have developed a GENERAL idea of how and where the charges were placed - but not in any way an exact one.
There are videos of thermite reactions going off - and they burn out in a few seconds. Nanothermite and thermite/thermate can have additives in them to made the burn slower/faster/hotter/cooler/give off more explosive gas or less explosive gas - but the range is not wide - it reacts quickly, but it won't ignite at all without a source of high heat [a detonator]. You can hit it with a hammer and throw a match on it and it will do nothing. Without a high, high temperature detonator it is not going to do anything.
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