25.3% Al and 74.7% Fe2O3 is also cool, and I wonder if they could had had "naturally occurring" thermite in the mix with Al-H2O.
Posted on 09/22/2011 9:05:58 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Molten aluminum mixing with water could have ultimately brought the towers down.
More than ten years after the fact, a scientists based at the Norwegian research institute SINTEF is proposing that a well-documented chemical reaction spelled the ultimate demise of the Twin Towers after the attacks of September 11, 2001. This isn’t another conspiracy theory, nor is it proven fact. But Christian Simensen theorizes that a mix of molten aluminum from the aircraft bodies mixed with water from the sprinkler systems could have catalyzed secondary blasts that brought the World Trade Center towers to the ground.
Simensen’s idea, presented at a materials technology conference in San Diego this week, is thus: after the planes impacted the WTC towers, tons of molten aluminum ran down into the floors below the impact sites, mingling with several hundred liters of water from the buildings’ fire sprinkler systems. This mix of aluminum and water is known to cause a chemical reaction that can not only boost temperatures but also put off combustible hydrogen in the process. Basically, it’s a recipe for a really hot explosion.
The official 9/11 report assigns blame for the collapsing towers to the steel structural beams at the building’s core. Basically, it says that these beams became super-heated by the jet fuel inferno created by the impacting aircraft, and that in turn caused the structures to fail.
But Simensen’s explanation is intriguing. It doesn’t dismiss the official report, but simply claims that it doesn’t tell the whole story. He says the aluminum industry has recorded more than 250 water-aluminum explosions since 1980, and that at one point aluminum maker Alcoa did an experiment involving just 44 pounds of molten aluminum and 20 liters of water (along with a small quantity of rust, which exacerbates the reaction).
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Smelting of alumina into metallic aluminum, a powdery substance is used in rocket fuel, fluorescent light bulbs, space shuttle launches.. etc. Its chemical properties make it effective in catalytic converters and explosives.
Molten aluminum can react explosively with water.
Applications in building and construction represent the largest single market of the aluminum industry. [Source]
A building is rarely constructed today without Aluminum..the physical properties of aluminium make it a perfect material for construction
Aluminum or aluminium is used in the jet engines and the hulls of hi-tech warships, and described as "resistant to heat and corrosion", plentiful and relatively inexpensive.
Aluminum isn’t a main ingredient of rocket fuel for no good reason
Not buying it. The plumbing lines were severed on more than one floor allowing water to gush everywhere. Besides, has anyone bothered to tell him that at high temps aluminum burns.
So did they find the combustion products of Al in the debris? Or was the Al in metallic form?
Viewing the tapes of the building collapse it didn’t appear
to me that there was any bright flare which would have been
present with an Al or Mg fire.
Massive amounts of aluminum construction materials are also use for interior office partitions, dropped ceilings, cabinetry, furniture and more.
I have a theory why they came down....PLANES WERE FLOWN THROUGH THEM.
The only theory that is too absurd for the left to contemplate are the deliberate acts of nineteen well trained and financed homicidal muslim agents of global islamic terrorism, and the ensuing structual damage due to the impact of fully fueled passenger jets hitting the buildings dead-center. It’s just to silly to entertain.
25.3% Al and 74.7% Fe2O3 is also cool, and I wonder if they could had had "naturally occurring" thermite in the mix with Al-H2O.
...Fe, There you have it, found in all supernovas...
Reminds me of the Sheffield DDS after struck by an Exocet in the Falklands War - can be some nasty stuff, that aluminum.
misleading
heat weakedn steel
stell that is designed to carry certain loads will not carry twice that load for a long time
the building fell because the material left after the impact was weakened by the fire and failed due to fatigue from the excessive load
doesn’t matter how short term the fatigue was, it matters how excessive the load was during the fatigue
Sure. But, the fatigue and weakening of the metal wouldn't be universal like on the buildings. The buildings had a uniform displacement of loss and strength, any displacement of strength would tend to prove a disaster, ie weak side of building collapses, it didn't.
Makes complete sense especially since this guy witnessed being hit by explosions in the basement at 8:30am about 16 minutes before the first airplane hit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c3gyprsa9Y
Like I said, it wasn’t the aluminum that was the problem. It was the thousands of gallons of jet fuel and the damage done by a 100 ton jet aircraft slamming into the building.
To be honest, they collapsed because islamic terrorists flew jumbo jets into them. Nuff said.
I thought the aluminum used in rocket fuel was in the form of powder (or filings) to greatly increase the surface area. It is not in a puddle of molten aluminum.
Has anyone found where a puddle of molten aluminum acts this way?
BTW, magnesium filings are more spectacular when they go up.
Look at your own stated ratio of 25%AL to 75%Fe.
Powdered metals are highly reactive but you have to work to get the ratios and ignition correct. Water dumped on molten AL or FE or ZN or Pb turns to steam VIOLENTLY hence “explosions” of trapped water. There are plenty of items in the building/plane combo that create explosions of all sorts but these are kinda trivial compared to thousands of gallons of wind-fed JP4 weakening steel past the yield point.
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