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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 448
salmon-to-yellow in color being pulled from the cleanup operation. He estimates the steel to be
between approx. 1550 - 1900
o
F, (845 - 1040
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C). The cleanup operation also encountered large
pools of molten steel which had cooled and solidified into large chunks of slag. This molten
metal was reported by several different media sources. 9-11 Research has a good archive of these
articles.
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Something other than fire is responsible for this molten metal. Even if the fires were hot
enough before the collapse, which they weren't, they would have been smothered in the collapse.
Later water infiltrated the site as well. Fires can't burn without an ample supply of oxygen. Dr.
Jones explains that thermite provides a logical explanation for this molten metal that was found
in the basements of WTC 1, 2, and 7. Thermite has its own oxygen source and can reach
temperatures greater than 4500°F (2500°C).
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You can see a short 4-minute documentary on
thermite at http://media.putfile.com/thermitef. As a matter of fact, the US government holds a
patent on thermite.
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FEMA's own report contains evidence of bombs in the towers but they and other scientist
have not considered bombs as a causative factor. A few pieces of steel were examined from one
of the twin towers and from WTC 7. The steel showed evidence consistent with an explosion.
The thickness of a column was reduced to half an inch. Another piece of steel had what is known
as a eutectic reaction—“intergranular melting capable of turning a solid steel girder into Swiss
cheese.” Jim Hoffman of 9-11 Research says these are very striking results. They reveal a
phenomenon never before observed in building fires.
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The New York Times called these
findings “perhaps the deepest mystery uncovered in the investigation.” WPI Transformations
provides an illustrative description of the phenomenon:
A one-inch column has been reduced to half-inch thickness. Its edges--
which are curled like a paper scroll--have been thinned to almost razor sharpness.
Gaping holes--some larger than a silver dollar--let light shine through a formerly
solid steel flange. This Swiss cheese appearance shocked all of the fire-wise
professors, who expected to see distortion and bending--but not holes.
They further state that the fires were not hot enough to produce this effect:
There is no indication that any of the fires in the World Trade Center
buildings were hot enough to melt the steel framework. Jonathan Barnett,
professor of fire protection engineering, has repeatedly reminded the public that
steel--which has a melting point of 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit--may weaken and
bend, but does not melt during an ordinary office fire. Yet metallurgical studies
on WTC steel brought back to WPI reveal that a novel phenomenon--called a
eutectic reaction--occurred at the surface, causing intergranular melting capable of
turning a solid steel girder into Swiss cheese.
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The presence of eutectic formations were confirmed by materials science professors
Ronald R. Biederman and Richard D. Sisson Jr. in their preliminary report published in JOM (the
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