Err it's right there buddy. There is a peak at 1.26KeV - that can only be the k-alpha peak of magnesium. It's black and white it is there. Just because your heroes made a mistake doesn't mean you can say it doesn't contain Mg when it's plainly obvious it does.
What is the peak at 1.26KeV? Show how you identify it.
Well for starters there is an Mg peak in fig 17 so you need to have a look at that.
Secondly the figs 16-18 are spot probe scans of certain high concentration areas of the sample. There isn't any reason to expect to see Ca in those regions.
If you look at fig 18 they have labelled the 1 KeV peak as Na - where has this come from? There is overlap between Na and Zn at this point so it's important to label as both especially as Fig 14 does not differentiate.
The whole MEK soaking experiment is nonsense - it's inconclusive. Why didn't they use FTIR and XRD for identification instead?
Basile is not independent.
From Harrit et al paper
Oops seems you are a little gullible.
Basile can't read a EDX spectrum - Mg is right there in Fig 14.
Well of course you can't, it completely destroys your delusion and you don't want to part with it for some reason. I've shown with data that the most likely material that those platelets are is kaolinite. Why don't you argue about the shapes and the EDX spectra?
Care to come up with a process that produces hexagonal platelets like that with that composition? Why would you use that shape in nano-thermite? It's a stupid shape to use because the surface area is increased even further over a sphere and hence there would be even less aluminium to react because the majority of the particle would be Al2O3. It's pointless - a sphere is a far more efficient shape.
Why on earth would I write a paper about a paper that doesn't exist in the scientific community? The Harrit et al paper doesn't register except on truther forums and then on debunker skeptic sites. The paper is a joke - seriously. It is only cited by those who have zero understanding and are bamboozled by the shiny graphs.
But you couldn't refute any of the work could you? Nope you just shouted about peer review.