File:Nano-Thermite.pdf

From Wikispooks
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Nano-Thermite.pdf(file size: 9.88 MB, MIME type: application/pdf)

Evidence of explosive residues in dust from the WTC collapse. How did it come to be here? The powers that be have never provided an answer.

Disclaimer (#3)Document.png paper  by Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley, Bradley R. Larsen dated 2009
Subjects: World Trade Center
Source: The Open Chemical Physics Journal

★ Start a Discussion about this document
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe



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.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeDimensionsUserComment
current15:45, 4 June 2010 (9.88 MB)Maintenance script (talk)
  • You cannot overwrite this file.

The following 3 pages uses this file: