Did you know nothing can melt steel?

Question

Not even fire.

Answer 1

This is funny. Too many don't get it

Answer 2

Well, since humans have been melting iron and steel for quite a long time, I'd say you are incorrect.

In addition, steel gets soft and loses it's structural strength at much lower temps than it takes to "melt" it. Many buildings have collapsed, or had to be torn down, following fires as their structural integrity is compromised by the heat.

Answer 3

Well steel can melt all too easily sometimes - having soaked charcoal brickettes in LOX, I can assure you that cast iroin and steel burn - let alone melt - given half a chance!

If steel didn't melt, it would be used for things like light bulb filaments (tungsten usuually used).

What is more intriguing perhaps, is if you find the material with the highest metling point - what would you make the pot out of to melt it in ?

Mark

Answer 4

Actually to be correct. Fire does melt steel. The thing mentioned in that stupid guy taking advantage of what Rosie said a few weeks ago never showed at what temp. does. Steel begins to melt @2750deg F. Structural steel starts to melt @ around 3000+deg. The WTC towers were certified to resist temps of 2000deg F for several hours. The maximum temp @ which jet fuel (kerosine) burns in an open air environment is 1200deg. F. If the towers were ingulfed in such heat then why were there people standing in the open wounds of the buildings 20min before they collapsed?

Answer 5

If nothing can melt steel then how would steel ever be shaped to build anything.

And you dont even have to melt it. it only takes about 900 deg F temperatues ( 400 degrees or so below its melting temperature ) to make steel lose over 50 percent of its structural integrity.

Answer 6

So what happened at the WTC site exactly? I was across the street and saw that fireball go down the street. What happened then? Did they just poof away?


Steel does melt at very high temperatures. Also most steel is mixed with other metals.

Answer 7

So how is steel produced and recycled if it cannot be melted? I've seen a plasma cutter cut through steel like a hot knife thru butter. But keep trying.

Answer 8

I dont think thats true. Look at 9/11 and the twin towers. The steel beams just melted away under the intense heat and temperature from the fire.

Answer 9

Are you referring to the WTC collapse and Rosie O'Donnell saying that jet fuel can't melt steel. Well, she is right. However, the steel does not have to turn to liquid for the building to collapse. Jet fuel generates enough heat to weaken and distort the steel for it to break. Also the jet fuel would heat the steel enough for it to expand and crack and fracture the surrounding concrete.

Here is an article on how the twin towers collapsed and it isn't because President Bush decided to murder 3,000 people so that we could go to war against Saddam Hussein.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html

Answer 10

That's wrong. Steel melts at around 1370 degrees C (2500°F)

Answer 11

shut up, you moron. of course steel can be melted.

i bet you are not really a conspiracy theorist, but a anti-conspiracy theorist trying to make 9/11-conspiracy believers look stupid. here is a real article:


Most people -- or certainly many people, especially in the U.S. -- believe the complete structural failure and total collapse of the World Trade Center towers was caused by the combustion of large quantities of jet fuel, dispersed and ignited after "hijacked" jets crashed into each tower on Sept. 11, 2001. That is the scenario promulgated to the far corners of the globe by official U.S. government sources.

Interestingly, jet fuel -- somewhat similar to common kerosene and not much different than charcoal lighter fluid -- burns at roughly 875 degrees. Whether a little or a lot of fuel is burned, it still burns at roughly the same temperature. Now: Think about all the kerosene burning in all those kerosene heaters (and lanterns), constructed primarily of thin, low-grade, steel sheet metal. Think about all those kerosene heaters burning merrily away, with temperatures perhaps approaching 875 degrees at the hottest. Think about how parts of all those kerosene heaters would then turn into bubbling pools of melted steel before the horrified eyes of countless poor souls who had no idea the fuel used in their heaters would actually "MELT" the heaters themselves.

Of course, this does NOT happen -- which gives us a pretty good idea that what had been sold far and wide by the U.S. government and innumerable media outlets as the "cause" of the trade center towers' collapse is in fact absolute fiction and fantasy, without the slightest shred of scientific fact or collaborative evidence and testimony to support such monstrous and utter nonsense. Hardened steel such as that used in the WTC beams and girders needs temperatures of approximately TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED (2,800) degrees to actually melt, and temperatures approaching 2,000 degrees to turn bright red and soften,

The official version of the collapse of the WTC towers is -- again -- that burning jet fuel eventually melted or liquefied the massive and seriously hard steel beams of the WTC tower(s), to the point where the beams all gave way, unilaterally and simultaneously throughout both the gigantic structures and causing their total and nearly instantaneous collapse. Well, if such doesn't happen with kerosene heaters, you can bet it doesn't happen to huge steel-beamed buildings -- and indeed it never has; especially when the fires which supposedly "caused" such total structural failure had in fact long since largely burned themselves out.

In fact, nearly a year after the monumental and treacherous catastrophe which struck lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, an audio tape of firefighter communications was finally released -- which proves that the actual conditions at and near the point of impact in the north WTC tower only moments before the building's collapse were totally inconsistent with the conditions which had to have existed for the official version to be even minimally correct.

Firefighters who had reached the eightieth floor of the north tower reported they were eyewitnesses to fact much of the fire caused by burning jet fuel had by then largely burned out, although some burning and smoldering areas still remained. Not once did firefighters on site at " ground zero" of ground zero indicate the slightest concern that fires were still burning at an intensity which threatened their own or others' safety -- certainly not that conditions were so severe that the very integrity of the entire structure itself was threatened! On the contrary: they indicated that conditions were controllable: that they planned to conduct survivors safely out of the building, and to then bring in equipment and personnel to extinguish any remaining burning/smoldering areas.

And what, exactly, does all this mean? It means that the total structural failure of the two massive, superbly-engineered/designed edifices known as the WTC towers did NOT result from jet fuel flash-fires burning at under 900 degrees Fahrenheit -- when steel used in WTC construction needed temperatures over THREE TIMES HIGHER to actually "MELT."

And THIS means that the towers were in fact toppled by use of BOMBS or similar methods.



So, in conclusion, yes steel melts, no jet-feul-flames cannot melt or even weaken hardened steel, like the stel in the world trade center, and even if the steel was weekened, the whole thing would never have collaped down like that in under 10 seconds, the speed at which it would take a pool ball to hit the ground from the top of the towers.