Explain how dripping molten steel was found under WTC buildings 1, 2, and 7?

Question

If your answer is fire please explain how. The melting point of steel is 2800 degrees and the maximum temp of a jet fuel based fire is 1800 under optimum conditions. Please take into account that this molten steel was found 5 weeks after the collapse. Could there have been thermate used. To this day no one can explain this other than the thermate hypothesis.

Answer 1

Thermate, for those that don't know, is commonly used in demolitions because it will melt anything...steel, concrete, titanium, and takes down a building so fast that a building falls straight down at roughly free-fall speeds...like the twin towers and building 7 did. Using regular explosives...or jet fuel...causes the building to fall imperfectly, typically with peices falling to the sides or the entire building toppling to the side from the level the explosives (or fire) were set...ask any demolitions expert.

Fire always burns unevenly, so the effects of one side going first are more pronounced.

When a building does collapse from either regular explosives or from fire, it only collapses to the lowest level of the fire or explosive charge.

For steel to remain molten for any great length of time (more than an hour or so), it needs to reach temperatures of at least 3400 degrees...higher for period longer than one day. Burning thermate heats steel to temperatures of over 3600 degrees, and as long as it remains in contact with the steel, will continue burning up to 3 weeks or so, depending on the quantities used. That is why during scheduled demolitions, they use only the bare minimum neccesary and clear the debris immediately.

I'm not making any accusations here, just stating facts about thermate. A good friend of mine is a demolitions expert, having worked in the industry for about 15 years.

I do, however, think it's interesting that the man that owned the WTC (whole complex) bought it for $3 billion just a month before 9/11, and insured it for $3.5 billion. The policy was written in such a way that in the case of a terrorist attack on any one of the buildings, he would get the entire sum. His brother owns a demolitions company bought in March of '01, and had no previous experience in the industry.

Answer 2

You are correct, partly... The maximum temperature of a jet fuel (JP6 - Kerosene) fire under normal circumstances is around 1800 degrees. However these were not normal circumstances.... The added air pressure of the buildings collapsing alone would drastically increase the temperature (just like the blacksmith's bellows) not to mention god only knows what types of chemicals, solvents or other combustibles used in the world trade centers by the maintenance staff or what effect a few tons of paper would have on the temperature. Lets not forget the parking garages and all those cars with full tanks of gas too.

Did I mention the incredible heat generated when intense stresses are applied to metal (ever bend a paper clip back and forth till it got hot?)

September 11th was a horrible tragedy, and hopefully it will never happen again.

Answer 3

Something else you are not taking into consideration is the prior attack on the WTC. It would have already been weaken no matter how well the repairs were done.
Also the impact of the planes into the WTC bldgs would have done damage with or without a full load of fuel. Especially into bldg 2. The angle of the plane impacting the bldg seared the steel beams causing the domino affect on the upper floors causing them to collapse down. When the WTC was designed they did take into account a small plane hitting the bldg but the planes at the time were not as large as they are today.

Answer 4

It sounds like you know just enough to be dangerous. A more likely answer is latent heat that continued to build and was trapped.

Try this: dig a 6x6x4 pit. Build a wooden fire and when all you Have left are embers then take a thermal reading and throw a pig into it. Cover it with banana leaves and dirt and then after a few hours stick a probe thermometer inside the pig. You will find that the temperature of the pig has exceeded the original temperature of the embers and that its fat and meat are melting all over the place. Finally make a few Mai-tais and invite the whole neighborhood over to celebrate.

Answer 5

As I recall the fires beneath the trade center were burning for a very long time after the collapse. Basically a huge furnace was created.

Don't know enough about thermate to speculate about it.

Answer 6

that's a standard one. metallic melts at a temperature far in extra of any available fireplace with regards to kerosene and place of work kit, subsequently there ought to were some form of reaction that generates the needed temperatures. As there are a approach of respected scientists, who've no reason to invent it, till we are to imagine they are mad and undesirable, who've observed the residue of a thermitic reaction, and some unignited thermitic fabric, then that's less expensive to imagine that changed into the reason behind the molten iron and metallic. it truly is fairly basic. Why human beings have a situation with even exciting this glaring rationalization is psychological, no longer clinical.

Answer 7

the high pressure of the weight of the building collapsing raises the temp...just like in a boiler, you can make water get to 900 degrees before boiling if the pressure is high enough

Answer 8

Yeah. Bush was seen in the underground parking lot with a welders torch just before the planes hit.... RING! RING! Ooops! Gotta go! Time for my psych meds!!

Answer 9

the trains and tracks were underneath the world trade centers

Answer 10

http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm Get some real facts here.