What created this molten metal?

Question

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Please look at these videos first before you comment. I want
100% HONEST, truthful, genuine answers, not propaganda
or deceptions or lies that you have been told.

Remember that the melting point of steel is 1532 C. Virtually
all steel foundries need to use special equipment like a blast
furnace, induction furnace or arc furnace to create molten iron
(liquid steel), and these processes require a HUGE amount
of energy.

PLEASE BE SINCERE AND HONEST IN YOUR ANSWERS

Answer 1

It's probably molten aluminum from the aircraft, or some other low-melting-point source inside the building.

Foundries and steel mills require such huge amounts of energy because of the enormous volumes of steel they are required to melt. Anyone can melt steel in his own backyard or garage with a handheld oxyacetylene torch. For that matter, most of the sparks emitted by a hand grinder are actually small particles of molten steel. It's misdirection and overstatement to assert the necessity of "huge" amounts of energy to melt the quantity shown in the video.

Also, please don't RANT and speak patronizingly to us in here with disingenuous "questions" like this one. This is the Engineering section, where we deal with the /real/ world in a scientific, rational, level-headed manner. Save the histrionics for Politics or Cultures and Groups.

----EDIT----
Just for the record, if I seemed to be implying that melting of steel was involved in the WTC collapse, I intended to say nothing of the sort. The linked article explains how steel behaves at elevated temperatures, and the probable reasons for the initiation of failure. I agree with most of it.

Answer 2

"easy prof with hard classes's" has a great link showing what happened to the WTC.

I don't believe for a minute that the conditions allowed for any structural metal to actually melt. Low temperature metals such as mercury and lead do not glow red when they melt. Aluminum and steel glow long before they melt. Just because the metal is red hot does not indicate that it has melted. Why is there red hot metal many week after the collapse?

Think about how much energy was in the building for a regular fire to burn.All the jet fuel from 2 airplanes. All of the papers inside the building and flammable office furniture. There was a very large amount still present after the building collapsed and fire simply cannot burn it quickly. The fire can only burn as fast as it can get oxygen to allow for combustion. Also, the rubble actually acted as insulation effectively keeping the heat in and temperatures high enough to make the steel columns red hot.

The BS about explosives is just that. Whenever anything burns or explodes, a chemical footprint is left making the cause easily identifiable. No explosive residue was found in the WTC rubble.

Answer 3

The steel in those buildings did not melt.

A gasoline fed fire does not get hot enough to melt steel.
All it can do is weaken it so that it can no longer support the loads it was designd for.

Structural designs must account for lower allowable stresses in the steel members if the design temperatures of the steel exceed 300 Deg. F. Above that point the steel is already starting to lose strength.

We had a tanker truck here veer off a highway and strike a bridge abutment, or support. The tanker burst into flames killing the driver and a passenger and burned for a long time. Part of the concrete bridge had to be replaced because the high temp. caused by the gasoline fed fire weakened the support beams, but the beams did not melt.

Answer 4

another conspiracy theory. what? do you actually think the government is behind it? if you do then your dumber than you think. that day cost the fedderal government billions it would take 40 years to recover a debt that size.besides alqueda took responsibility for it totally so get over it. it was a sad day for this country. and its even sadder that people like you want to blame the government for it. if you dont like the government then go to washington and lobby like the rest of us.


gatorbait jets dont use gasoline. have you ever seen jet fuel burn. it can and does melt steel especialy in the quantity required on an airliner

Answer 5

Please stop wasting bandwith. There are genuine Yahoo! Answers users that can actually benefit from that bandwidth.

You have already demonstrated that you are not interested in following up on any of the answers provided to your previous "questions".

It is my conclusion that you are not really interested in an answer. You are really looking to "convert" people to whatever conspiracy cause that you support. So far, I have not seen anyone convinced to take up the banner of delusion with you, so, please stop.

So, I will be SINCERE and HONEST in my answer to this question.

We have all visited the websites that you link to. We have looked at the pictures that you say we should look at. We have read the essays that you point us to. And, we provide evidence and references from industry recognized organizations which provide numerous scientifically proven explanations for every one of your "points."

Yet for some reason, you still insist on filling up Yahoo! Answers with this BS. From that, I can only conclude that you choose not to review the links and references that have been provided to you.

Until you decide to visit the websites, and read the answers provided, I recommend that you take your crusade elsewhere.