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PostPosted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 6:20 pm    Post subject: NEW! Active Thermitic Material Discovered in WTC Dust Reply with quote

Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
pp.7-31 (25)
Authors: Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley, Bradley R. Larsen
The Open Chemical Physics Journal, Volume 2, 4/3/09

Abstract:

We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center. Examination of four of these samples, collected from separate sites, is reported in this paper. These red/gray chips show marked similarities in all four samples. One sample was collected by a Manhattan resident about ten minutes after the collapse of the second WTC Tower, two the next day, and a fourth about a week later. The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The red material contains grains approximately 100 nm across which are largely iron oxide, while aluminum is contained in tiny plate-like structures. Separation of components using methyl ethyl ketone demonstrated that elemental aluminum is present. The iron oxide and aluminum are intimately mixed in the red material. When ignited in a DSC device the chips exhibit large but narrow exotherms occurring at approximately 430 °C, far below the normal ignition temperature for conventional thermite. Numerous iron-rich spheres are clearly observed in the residue following the ignition of these peculiar red/gray chips. The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic.
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The paper is written beautifully and two essays have now been created by Jim Hoffman at 9-11 Research about the paper to help readers understand the ideas and their implications --

Explosives Found in World Trade Center Dust:
Scientists Discover Both Residues And Unignited Fragments
Of High-Tech Metal Incendiaries in Debris From the Twin Towers

by Jim Hoffman
http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/thermite/explosive_residues.html

Wake Up and Smell the Aluminothermic Nanocomposite Explosives
As Documentation of Thermitic Materials in the WTC Twin Towers Grows,
Official Story Backers Ignore, Deny, Evade, and Dissemble
by Jim Hoffman
http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/thermite/explosives_evidence_timeline.html


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Finally! I've been waiting for it. Admittedly, the chemistry is beyond me, but the fact alone that we now have three peer-reviewed 9/11 truth papers published in scientific journals is significant itself. And thanks for posting Jim Hoffman's new essays. Especially the second one looks very promising to me.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent

Thank you!
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Outstanding work. I've read the paper, and the implications are impossible to ignore.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I haven't read it yet, but will as soon as I have a free mo. Sounds promising.Wink

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jim mentioned his paper to me a couple times in the past month. Can't wait to read it.

EDIT: Read them. They're grand.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 5:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, and the last essay is this one --


A Hypothetical Blasting Scenario
A Plausible Theory Explaining the Controlled Demolition of the Twin Towers Using Aluminothermic Incendiaries and Explosives with Wireless Ignition Means
by Jim Hoffman
Version 1.0, April 3, 2009

Introduction

Most science-based investigators of the events of 9/11/2001 are reluctant to develop detailed hypotheses or conjectures for obvious reasons: to speculate about unknown events in a criminal conspiracy is to invite the label of "conspiracy theorist" with its weight of discrediting associations, unless, of course, one is parroting the speculations of the officially-endorsed account.

Never mind that NIST explains WTC7's destruction as the first-ever fire-induced collapse of a steel-frame high-rise building with the refreshingly novel failure mechanism -- supported by no physical evidence whatsoever -- that thermally-induced expansion of a huge beam caused it to break loose of its connections and crash down, taking the rest of the skyscraper with it. It is the skeptics of this fairy tale that New York Times reporter Eric Lipton calls conspiracy theorists. 1

The chief apologists for the official story seem to want it both ways: on the one hand stigmatizing anyone who questions the official version of events as a conspiracy theorist, and on the other hand faulting the same intellectual dissidents for not articulating a detailed theory of the crime, as Ryan Mackey does here. How interesting that the conspiracy theorist label remains the first line of defense against the consideration of alternative hypotheses, while the main arguments against controlled demolition of the Twin Towers appeal to alleged difficulties in implementation -- arguments that can only be answered through postulating hypothetical scenarios.

Here, then, is such a scenario -- in much more detail than suggestions I have previously made to answer frequently asked questions -- that I hope will be useful to other investigators working to solve the horrific crime of '9/11'.
http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/thermite/blasting_scenario.html
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 6:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I generally don't like speculation on the specifics but the scenario is still very well thought-out.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 10:48 am    Post subject: Thermite Fingerprint Reply with quote

Thermite Fingerprint

Quote:
"In short, the paper explodes the official story that 'no evidence' exists for explosive/pyrotechnic materials in the WTC buildings."
The red/gray chips are the "loaded gun" of 9-11."
-- Dr. Steven Jones


Two new interviews with Dr. Jones & Kevin Ryan in this special report:

http://visibility911.com/reports-thermite01.php
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's great that there are interviews! Thanks for that.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The interview with Dr. Jones was brilliant. Nice job. I'll be listening to the Kevin Ryan one later.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Scientists find active 'super-thermite' in WTC dust

Joe Byrne
Saturday April 4, 2009

A team of nine scientists have released a startling new report on the events of 9/11, using data from dust gathered in the days and weeks after the towers came down. They discovered that scattered throughout the dust samples were red and gray chips of 'active thermitic material', or an un-reacted pyrotechnic explosive.

Thermite is used in steel welding, fireworks shows, and hand grenades. It is the combination of a metal powder and a metal oxide which produce a reaction known for extremely high temperatures focused in a very small area for a short period of time. The 'active thermitic material' discovered in the World Trade Center dust was a combination of elemental aluminum and iron oxide, and is a form of thermite known as 'nano-structured super-thermite'.

“These observations reminded us of nano-thermite fabricated at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and elsewhere; available papers describe this material as an intimate mixture of UFG[Ultra-fine grain] aluminum and iron oxide in nano-thermite composites to form pyrotechnics or explosives. Commercially available thermite behaves as an incendiary when ignited, but when the ingredients are ultra-fine grain and are intimately mixed, this 'nano-thermite' reacts very rapidly, even explosively, and is sometimes referred to as 'super-thermite',” the report explains.

The full article in The Open Chemical Physics Journal can be found here.

Some of the authors of the paper have lost their jobs at universities and chemistry labs for their outspoken breakdown of what happened at the World Trade Center on 9/11. Kevin Ryan lost his job as a lab director after writing a letter to the National Institute for Standards and Technology(NIST was conducting an investigation into 9/11 at the time) challenging the common theory that burning jet fuel weakened the steel supports holding up the 110-story skyscrapers. Ryan claims that the owner of his laboratory subsidiary "was the company that certified the steel components used in the construction of the WTC buildings,” according to the South Bend Tribune. Dr. Steven E. Jones, a physicist at Brigham Young University, presented a paper in 2005 discussing alternative theories to the commonly accepted 'jet fuel' reasoning. In September 2006 he was placed on paid administrative leave and his paper was removed from the BYU database.

Jones has told Visibility911.com, "In short, the paper explodes the official story that 'no evidence' exists for explosive/pyrotechnic materials in the WTC buildings."

It remains to be seen if this study will encourage further investigation into the events of 9/11, or if anyone will come forth with a legitimate reason as to why nano-structured super-thermite can be found in dust produced by the collapse of the World Trade Centers.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Scientists_find_active_superthermite_in_WTC_0404.html
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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It remains to be seen if this study will encourage further investigation into the events of 9/11


Yes, this is the amazing part is the media silence in general. Glad to see they covered this. Thanks for posting.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some real news!! Translations from Danish . . .

First, check out the front page -- http://videnskab.dk/content/dk

Danish scientist: nano explosive material found in the dust from the World Trade Center
3. 3. april 2009 kl. April 2009 kl. 21:04 21:04
World Trade Center crashed perhaps gravel because someone had placed combustible nano materials in the buildings, and not because the two aircraft was throbbing in them. Analysis of the dust after the WTC has just published a scientific article, including en dansk kemiker. a Danish chemist.

and

Niels Harrit: Scientific evidence of ancient knowledge of 9 / 11
3. 3. april 2009 kl. April 2009 kl. 21:03 21:03
It is no surprise to the Danish chemist Niels Harrit that the dust from the World Trade Center appears to contain traces of explosives similar nanotermit. The official explanation for the tower's collapse has never given any meaning, he said.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

victronix01 wrote:
Some real news!! Translations from Danish . . .


That appears to be a high traffic news source. When I last checked, the (two) articles are still on the front page.

The Raw Story article appears to have been edited and now contains NIST double speak.

Debunkers are attacking the journal itself calling it a "vanity" journal.

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Here's the actual article itself; published again at the Bentham Open Journals, a vanity publishing outfit based in... wait for it... Pakistan.

http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/2009/04/jones-company-go-vanity-publishing.html

Other debunkers are confusing manufactured nanothermite with "paint chips".

If you actually read the paper you see that they ignited these samples (what the debunkers call "paint chips").

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Red chips when ignited produce very high temperatures even now, several years after the 9/11 tragedy, as shown by the bright flash observed and the production of molten iron-rich spheres... As measured using DSC, the material ignites and reacts vigorously at a temperature of approximately 430 °C.... After igniting several red/gray chips in a DSC run to 700 °C, we found numerous iron-rich spheres and spheroids in the residue, indicating that a very high temperature reaction had occurred, since the iron-rich product clearly must have been molten to form these shapes. In several spheres, elemental iron was verified since the iron content significantly exceeded the oxygen content. We conclude that a high-temperature reduction-oxidation reaction has occurred in the heated chips, namely, the thermite reaction.

Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe, page 27-29

Uh... since when do ignited "paint chips" produce temperatures high enough to result in molten iron?

Further, the "iron-rich spheres" could only be created with extreme temperatures and were also found in the dust samples.
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