Undetonated Explosive Material from 9/11 Rubble, page 1

A paper came out in the summer of last year highlighting fragments of undetonated explosives found in the rubble.
www.bentham-open.org...

The paper describes how a group of physics and chemistry experts reviewed samples of dust from 9/11. The samples contained small fragments of undetonated explosive. They arrived at that conclusion not only by actually exploding tiny bits of the material, but also noting that the byproducts of the explosion produced the signature of a very specific type of explosive:

As measured using DSC, the material ignites and reacts vigorously at a temperature of approximately 430 °C, with a rather narrow exotherm, matching
fairly closely an independent observation on a known super-thermite sample. The low temperature of ignition and the presence of iron oxide grains less than
120 nm show that the material is not conventional thermite (which ignites at temperatures above 900 °C) but very likely a form of super-thermite.

The paper describes how the chips found in the debris are not paint chips or pieces of drywall as some had claimed prior to that research because paint and drywall do not explode, nor do burning them produce evidence of an explosion. The substance they found exploded upon ignition, and left behind evidence of an explosion.

At that time the article was released, Snopes.com, a website that tries to cover as much irrelevant information about 9/11 as possible, had a statement made on their page at www.snopes.com... such as:
False: "Thermite was found in the World Trade Center debris."
I vaguely seem to remember sending them an email telling them about the new paper. At some point after that paper was released, that statement marked as "false", has simply been removed completely rather than being changed to "true". I find it dishonest of Snopes to not publish a correction.

I'm writing this topic because I've mentioned this a couple times in other threads only to be met with dead silence... no replies and no stars. Clearly I'm missing something. What I'm wondering is why this particular point of 9/11 evidence is not considered smoking gun proof that 9/11 was an inside job. My question is: Why is this not smoking gun proof that the World Trade Center compound was brought down using explosives rather than brought down due to fire? I'm thinking that perhaps it is smoking gun proof, but people just have not bothered to read the paper. I admit maybe it isn't smoking gun proof and I'm just not seeing a flaw in the article, but until then I consider it a solid proof.

[edit on 28-1-2010 by truthquest]

reply to post by truthquest

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Your link leads to a table of contents where I can't find the article that you are referring to. Could you re-establish the link? Thank you.

Jesse Ventura took a look at the super thermite in his show



more info


[edit on 28-1-2010 by conar]

reply to post by truthquest

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This is the link directly to the page requested.
www.bentham-open.org...

Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe

Download the study in pdf format here

reply to post by JIMC5499

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Nano-thermite was found. Nano-thermite is engineered, not natural. Why was there nano-thermite if it was not for explosive use ?

reply to post by JIMC5499

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What?

OK, imagine a 4 foot long, 2 inch thick 'sausage'. The 'sausage' consists of a thin tubular plastic sheath, holding the thermite (or in this case 'super' thermite), you then wrap the sausage around a girder, at a 45 degree angle, sloping downwards. Do this to the major support girders, and when you ignite electrically (remotely) this stuff cuts through the girder faster than a hot knife through butter.

As it's on a sloping angle, as soon as it cuts the metal, gravity takes over and the upper part of the girder slides off the cut angle and you then have...surprise, surprise...the building coming down at almost free fall speed.

Just open your eyes people...

reply to post by spikey

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First off. What in the hell is NANO-THERMITE? Any proof to it's existance?

Second. As soon as you ignite your sausage of thermite, it is going to vaporize it's container and then there is nothing to hold it in place long enough to melt through a beam.

reply to post by Signals

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How would explosives centralized in a plane cause 100% simultaneous structure failure through out the building? How did these arabs sneak that much explosives onto the plain without getting caught.
Nice straw-man arguement.
also for the mixing of random materials already in the building,, simply put,, no.

reply to post by JIMC5499

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It wouldnt have been to difficult to research "thermite" for 20 seconds before posting. There are many more uses for thermite than railroad tracks. there are many videos showing other uses for it on youtube. Very weak arguement, what kind of tinfoil are you using? I think the aluminum is seeping into your brain.

reply to post by dereks

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Id recommend reading the report. NIST graphs show the building falling at free-fall and they even admitted on video that for a few seconds, the building actualy fell FASTER than free fall. And more than likely your either a troll or a disinfo agent. shame on you either way

reply to post by JIMC5499

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wow kid, RESEARCH.



What do you think these men are doing? Just goofin around?
your right, Mankind in all of its intelligence couldnt figure out how to get thermite to do what your talking about!

en.wikipedia.org...

Nano-thermite is basically thermite engineered at a very small scale. What this means is that the materials used to make it are smaller, and are mixed better, so as to allow a faster and more intense burn.

[edit on 1/28/2010 by VonDoomen]

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