So couldn't fire melt steel too?
2007-05-29 07:12:36 · 13 answers · asked by TriSec 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Shhh... you'll scare the conspiracy theorists if you say that too loud...
2007-05-29 07:14:51 · answer #1 · answered by Bush Invented the Google 6 · 5⤊ 3⤋
Pour some gasoline on your steel barbeque, light it and keep adding gasoline to it until your steel barbeque starts to melt. And also msi cord seems to leave out the fact of temperatures at which steel starts to melt by fire. Why don't you enlighten us msi? After all you point out that you are a physics student and must be able to tell us at what heat fire melts steel 60 50 40 30 20 10 floors below the point of an actual fire.
2007-05-29 14:30:08 · answer #2 · answered by Open your eyes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fire doesn't make steel but it is used to refine the ore (a mixture of the metal you're talking about and other materials) to make pure steel so yes a hot enough fire would melt steel.
2007-05-29 14:22:20 · answer #3 · answered by AJ R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
15 yr fulltime firefighter...in a burning building the steel does not actually melt...at about 600 degrees F it loses about half its tensile strength, that combined with the beam attempting to expand (several feet in large buildings), since the beam is coonstrained on both ends it buckles.
If this is a government conspiracy they did a great job, I was taught about the dangers of heat acting on steel buildings, during my rookie traing in 1992, a full 9 yrs befor the towers fell, We call metal buildings disposable and will not stay in if we cant knock the fire down immediately.
I was on duty that day and we were all expecting the building to have structural failure (to be honest though never thought far enough ahead to predict they would come all the way down)
2007-05-29 15:15:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fire is used to produce steel from iron and coke (a byproduct of coal). Fire can do a number of things to steel. The heat can cause the metal to lose its tensile strength, making it more easy to bend, twist, warp, or break. Heat can also make steel expand putting a steel beam under forces it was designed for. Of course, enough heat can actually melt steel.
2007-05-29 14:19:28 · answer #5 · answered by msi_cord 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It has. Ever heard of 9/11. And quit acting like ALL Liberals believe in a conspiracy theory. That's like saying all Republicans support Bush.
2007-05-29 14:16:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yeah funny how when you cook on a grill it doesn't just fall apart half way through a few burgers huh.
2007-05-29 14:21:04 · answer #7 · answered by f_i_s_h_1 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Amazing isn't it? Fire can melt steel to form it... But once you build something out of it.... It's not possible for it to melt it again.. That's Liberal Logic for you!!
2007-05-29 14:16:33 · answer #8 · answered by Wyco 5 · 4⤊ 4⤋
Blast furnaces and electric arc furnaces are used to make steel. And a"mini mill" makes new steel out of recycled steel.
But please, don't confuse libs with thefacts.
2007-05-29 14:23:08 · answer #9 · answered by TedEx 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes it is. Someone really should have asked that dyke when she got her degree in metallurgy.
2007-05-29 14:38:35 · answer #10 · answered by mikey 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No... Normally they use an 8 ball.
Don't tell.
2007-05-29 14:16:41 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋