Thermite at the WTC
Open Chem. Phys. J. 2:7-31 (2009)

Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley, Bradley R. Larsen

... we conclude that the red layer of the red/gray chips we have discovered in the WTC dust is active, unreacted thermitic material, incorporating nanotechnology, and is a highly energetic pyrotechnic or explosive material.

Not only is the world's press not covering this, one can bet that the scientific establishment, as represented by its leading scientific journals, will not be covering it either.

Why? Because the Anglo-Saxon empire is now largely brain dead, it's citizens intimidated, brainwashed and made politically correct to the point of inanity.

Yes gentlemen, among the brain dead I include you, the Editors of Science, Nature, and the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences.

And among those in the scientific community that are not brain dead, though it would be best if they were, are those (and these) involved in scientific disinformation.

A search of the PNAS web site produced only one result for thermite, a 1998 paper entitled "Complex behavior of self-propagating reaction waves in heterogeneous media" (PNAS 1998 95:11053-11058).

Nature had an item in 1938 about "the terror of thermite incendiary bombs, spreading fire broadcast throughout great cities;" and an item in 1930 referred to thermite as a promising explosive. In 1979, Bradley, Capey and Shere reported in Nature on the extremely high "exothermicity" of the thermite reaction and its tendency to become explosive.

But like PNAS, Nature has had nothing to say about thermite since 9/11.

A search of the Science magazine Web site provides access to a September 29, 1916 article about The present position and future prospects of the chemical industry in Great Britain, which notes in passing the recent advantage taken of the "properties of aluminium ... [in] operations classed under the heading alumino-thermy, the most important being the reduction of refractory metallic oxides, although, of course, thermite is useful for the production of high temperatures locally." (e.g., for cutting steel building support columns). But since September 11, 2001, Science has not committed the word "thermite" to print.

At its 2010 Annual Meeting, to be held in San Diego, the AAAS, which publishes Science, will hold a symposium on Bridging Science and Society. Does anyone want to bet they'll have a session about "Science and 9/11 Truth"?

The Ghost in the Machines: Evidence of Foreknowledge in the WTC Hard Drive Recoveries [PDF]

Plausibly explains how advance knowledge of the destruction of the Twin Towers allowed the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Top Ten Connections Between NIST and Nano-Thermites [PDF]

... nano-thermites [are] hightech energetic materials made by mixing ultra fine grain (UFG) aluminum and UFG metal oxides; usually iron oxide, molybdenum oxide or copper oxide, although other compounds can be used (Prakash 2005, Rai 2005). The mixing is accomplished by adding these reactants to a liquid solution where they form what are called "sols", and then adding a gelling agent that captures these tiny reactive combinations in their intimately mixed state (LLNL 2000). The resulting "sol-gel" is then dried to form a porous reactive material that can be ignited in a number of ways.

The high surface area of the reactants within energetic sol-gels allows for the far higher rate of energy release than is seen in "macro" thermite mixtures, making nano-thermites "high explosives" as well as pyrotechnic materials (Tillitson et al 1999).

Sol-gel nanothermites, are often called energetic nanocomposites, metastable intermolecular composites (MICs) or superthermite (COEM 2004, Son et al 2007), and silica is often used to create the porous, structural framework (Clapsaddle et al 2004, Zhao et al 2004).

Nano-thermites have also been made with RDX (Pivkina et al 2004), and with thermoplastic elastomers (Diaz et al 2003). But it is important to remember that, despite the name, nano-thermites pack a much bigger punch than typical thermite materials.

... sol-gel nano-thermites were developed by US government scientists, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL) (Tillitson et al 1998, Gash et al 2000, Gash et al 2002).

NIST, which failed to consider the possibility that the Twin Towers were brought down with explosive thermites, is shown in this article to possess vast expertise in the manufacture and use of thermites as explosives.

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