ElMondoHummus
0.25 short of being half-witted
I understand the difference between thermite and thermate. Neither were used, the WPI study shows this. Look up previous threads on this topic.
This is uninformed babble. The highly exothermic reaction was energetic in far excess of what thermite or thermate can produce; see previous threads and posts showing the violation of thermite's heat of reaction. You're behind on this topic, and are simply repeating points that have long been refuted.
Furthermore, the "production" of the iron microspheres was not established by the Jones team; it was merely claimed. They did not properly eliminate the possibility that they were already within the matrix of the combusted material before they were tested. Yes, I'm fully aware that they claimed they examined it and didn't find any, but at least one of Jones's micrographs that are supposedly "before" pictures shows an item that can be argued as being an iron microsphere. Add that to the fact that Jones has been known to distort evidence in the past, and you have a claim that needs more than their assertion to back it. Their claim is insufficient.
Also: The platelets are identified as Kaolin. Your assertion that they're simply silicon oxide coated platelets is unjustified, unsupported, and in fact, contradictory to the notion that this is a manufactured nanothermate composition since silicon dioxide would compete with the iron in the redox reaction with the aluminum. Furthermore, if SiO2 were indeed present with elemental i.e. free, unbound Aluminum (the presence of which that team did not establish, and was shown by Sunstealer to not even be present), sulfur (recall, you're the one claiming thermate) and combusted in air (as they did in their calorimeter test), one of their by-products would've been H2S gas. I don't recall reading that as being reported as a product by Jones and Harrit.
(And no, don't try to bring the notion that it could've been silicon monoxide. That would've oxidized in air to silicon dioxide and you would've been right at the spot I'm pointing out above. I'm aware of the application of silicon monoxide to astronomy optics, but there are other processes involved, as well as coatings or other methods to prevent the SiO from oxidizing in air. So that's a failed proposal from the start).
And lastly, as Sunstealer and The Almond have pointed out, those spheres are not "iron rich". They most definitely contain other substances.
And have long been noted to be present well before 9/11, most likely due to it's known presence in concrete. Which also happens to square properly with the elevated microsphere findings after the collapses; that strongly indicates that the microspheres were liberated from concrete during the collapses. There's zero about Jones's and Harrit's work to prove the spheres were generated on 9/11 or via thermate reactions, and plenty to argue that they were already present beforehand in concrete. Again, this is ground well covered in previous threads. You need to catch up.
Not only irrelevant, but flies in the face of studies by organizations not only independent of the federal government (i.e. the Purdue simulation), but also of the US entirely. Look up Architect's posts regarding the studies the Arup group has done.
