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In reply to the discussion: The Great Thermite Debate... [View all]Ace Acme
(1,464 posts)That's why it's used for fireproofing.
If there are "any number of possible sources of the sulfur," how about you list them?
Mousepads? Carpet? What've you got? The WPI guys said the source of the sulfur is a mystery. Maybe you could clue them in.
I didn't say that thermate was the most plausible explanation. I said it was "the only practical explanation that has been proposed and demonstrated." You have a tendency to rewrite reality to fit your ideological needs.
Thermate didn't produce slag in Mr. Cole's blasts that reproduced the thinning and the holes. The steel was vaporized in those.
The steel was scooped up from Ground Zero so carelessly that the complete body of a man in a business suit turned up in the landfill. So don't tell me what "investigators" would have missed or what samples "should have been found all over the place." Apparently NIST couldn't find any core steel that had been weakened sufficiently to cause it to fail.
You seem to be on a mission to defend NIST. Why? What would be so awful about having new investigations? Why do you labor so mightily to deny that they are needed? What are you afraid of?