Sunday, April 14, 2013
Bilbo's Blog
9/11 Truthers have already performed tests on dust samples from the WTC
buildings and published their results in the peer-reviewed paper, Active
Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center
Catastrophe. There is controversy about their paper, and chemical engineer
Mark Basile is trying to raise
$5,000 to do a blind study of the dust in order to try to replicate the
results.
Meanwhile, there is another scientific study that is waiting
for someone to attempt. In a preliminary study of the WTC collapses, FEMA found
two samples of eutectically melted steel, one from WTC 7 and one from either WTC
1 or 2. They performed a metallurgical
analysis of the samples and published their results.
In The
Great Thermate Debate, civil engineer Jonathan Cole produced some melted
steel by means of thermate that looked very much like the FEMA samples. But as
far as I know, no one has done a metallurgical analysis of Cole's melted steel,
to see if it has the same micro structural appearance and same chemical content
as the FEMA samples. I don't know how much such a study would cost, but I think
it would be well worth the expense to see if it produced the same results. Such
an outcome would strongly indicate the use of thermates in the demolition of the
WTC buildings.