This is hilarious! Firstly you have committed the "Jones Fallacy". i.e. quoting Jones. Jones is wrong. It has been shown numerous times why.
Jones uses a SEM to do qualitative analysis and then makes the leap to thermite instead of doing a quantitative analysis.
eg: take FeO, Fe
2O
3, Fe
3O
4 powder in equal ratios by weight. Put them in a SEM. Run EDX/EDS - what do you find? Calculate the ratio of each oxide by looking at the peaks.
That is why Jones is wrong - he just looks at what is coming up on the spectra and makes the leap to thermite, because that's his agenda. Secondly his spectra do not share the same constituents with thermite.
I have already linked to pages that show very similar spectra to what Jones claims is a thermite speck - it's red paint. Honestly why are you so enamoured by Jones? He's a fraud. The problem is you are bamboozled. You see the word SEM and the spectra and think science is being done yet you have no experience of such machinery let alone know what it's capable of yet when people here who have experience of such matters you dismiss what they have to say and cling desperatly to Jones's coat tails like a small child.
Your wish to believe Jones is shown when you say "He can even make these live traces 'flare' or 'flash' when he subjects them to a directed and concentrated heat source." It's no evidence of thermite because if you take a blow torch to most materials they will flare because they are burning! Red paint will do exactly that, only Jones claims it's thermite and people with no understanding believe him.
Stop committing the Jones fallacy and do some research, link to non-truther pages to back up truther claims.
P.S. And please stop saying steel
vaporized! Read the link and understand what the word means. If steel had become a vapour (which needs extreme temperature) then it wouldn't form a sphere it would be a gas. This shows you don't even have the rudimentary knowledge of solid/liquid/gas you just spout what you have read without understanding. It's the hallmark of a truther.