Thermite, one of the most common pyrotechnic incendiary agents, is essentially a mixture of powdered ferric oxide and powdered or granular aluminum. When raised to its ignition temperature an intense reaction occurs whereby the oxygen in the ferric oxide is transferred to the aluminum, producing molten iron, aluminum oxide, and releasing 750 kilocalories per gram. A standard thermite reaction is shown as follows:8 Al 3 Fe3 O4 → 4 Al2 O3 9 Fe
This exothermic reaction may produce a temperature of about 3000° C. under favorable conditions. The white-hot molten iron and slag may itself prolong and extend the heating and incendiary action.
Other types of thermite mixtures containing metals and the oxides of other metals other than iron oxide are known: aluminum/manganese oxide (4 Al 3 MnO2); aluminum/chromium oxide (2 Al Cr2 O3) and others. Aluminum/iron oxide mixtures (8 Al 3 Fe3 O4) have proved to be the most effective incendiary composition for destruction of steel targets because superheated liquid products are formed by the reaction. These molten products affect a high rate of conductive heat transfer to the steel target and, therefore, cause destruction of the target. Any combination metal/metal oxide capable of high rates of conductive heat transfer can be used in the present invention.
However, because of the great difficulty in igniting aluminum/iron oxide mixtures and the almost complete absence of gaseous reaction products, which causes flameless burning and a small radius of action of the hot thermite, aluminum/iron oxide is not used alone as an incendiary mixture. It is used in multicomponent thermite incendiary compositions, in which another oxidizer and binder are together included. THERMATE-TH3, a mixture of aluminum and iron oxide and other pyrotechnic additives, was found to be superior to aluminum and iron oxide alone and was adopted for use in incendiary hand grenades. Its composition by weight is aluminum/iron oxide 68.7%, barium nitrate 29.0%, sulfur 2.0% and binder 0.3%. The addition of barium nitrate increases the thermal effects, creates flame in burning and reduces the ignition temperature.
Prior to the development of this invention, no incendiary grenade or device, utilizing a thermite charge less than or equal to 0.75 pound in weight, was capable of penetrating 1 inch thick steel plate with a container less than or equal to three-quarters the size of the AN-M14 TH3 incendiary hand grenade. The M14 grenade is generally cylindrical in shape with a 2.5 inch diameter by 4.5 inch height.
The most basic thermite grenade design is that of the AN-M14 TH3. It contains 1.5 pounds of thermate-TH3 which releases approximately 795 kilocalories per gram of uncontrolled energy through the thin walls of its sheet metal body. This energy, however, being undirected, is highly inefficient and insufficient to produce reasonable penetration levels.
A device with greater penetration capabilities is the "Thermite Penetrator Device" of U.S. Pat. No. 4,216,721 herein incorporated by reference, which was designed to direct the flow of energy through an opening at the bottom of the containing vessel. However, it is still inefficient in that a great amount of its energy is being lost through its open top end. The open top not only reduces the energy available for penetration, but adds to the device's visible signature.
A 1968 study performed for Frankford Arsenal resulted in a prototype design which incorporated a vented plug at the back end of the thermite device. The plug greatly reduced the amount of energy being lost and created pressure increases within the device. The study credited the increased penetration to a large void air space above the thermite charge which moderates the pressure buildup within the device which in turn produces an optimum flow of the molten iron. Such a device is described in the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) report by AD-393476 entitled "Thermite Destructive Device" by Stanley Rodney, September, 1968.
While the Frankford Arsenal design has merit, and a 1.5 pound charge of thermite could penetrate 1 inch thick steel plate, it is still insufficient with respect to thermite mass efficiency, to produce reasonable penetration levels. These devices also require the large void air space within the device cavity which makes the device too large (3" diameter×12" height), approximately four (4) times larger in size over the current system, AN-M14. Furthermore, the device requires means for locking the device onto a target.
The above description is of a cylindrical military thermite grenade. To cut beams a long containment vessel would be used with a long slit to be facing the material to be cut. Pressurized molten agents will exit the containment vessel at over 3000° F through the slit aperture after ignition melting any ferrous metal in its path.(Korn)
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ReplyDeleteExcellent presentation Korn. You have done a great job in your 9/11 coverage for this then anny-versary at the nursery.
ReplyDeleteThis essay is a keeper, thanks,
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Yep, add a little pinch of thermite, a few conventional explosives, a scalar weapon or two that toasts cars down the road like marshmallows ...add in a heapin helpin' of sheeple brains and you got yourself the makin's of a Big Apple conspiracy pie... baked and served fresh out of the Project for the New American Century's oven on 9/11. Tastes like bullshit.
ReplyDeleteNice header PD. Love the Letterman quote. I love Letterman :)
ReplyDeleteI also love Don Henley... the song is apropo to the aftermath of 9/11 and how I personally feel.. End of Innocence..
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLONgF8a_Ig
Funny.... youtube has just about every Don Henley song but "inside job"...hmmmm.... it was used as a background to many 9/11 truth vids...ya think that has anything to do with it??!!
ReplyDelete"Applause!" Nice work Korn!
ReplyDeleteThe cincher is the slag flow across the length of the column flowing inward. If You have ever cut with a torch the slag is only on the bottom of the material being cut. The slag flows evenly in one large cut then into the center of the column falling to the bottom(hence all evidence removed) as seen on the end of the column facing the camera,slag was going in the direction of the center of column. No question,thermite-thermate incendiary device as documented by the physicist from Brigham Young University who was then terminated by BYU. Wham bam thank you maam.
ReplyDeleteHe got his cum-uppins recently because he screwed with CBS. He went over the line and was cut off at the zipper.
ReplyDeleteexothermic reactions are what microwaves are. The Tesla howitzer brought down the Challenger,Columbia, Kal007 and dozens of other airliners like Air France recently and the Chinook. Thermite was ignited by Scalar WMD. I just don't know where the facility was.
Would you jump from the WTC unless you were burning or on fire? Only if you were being fried by focused microwave.
Vigilant guardian kept aircraft away so that it would not be obvious when choppers and small aircraft started exploding in midair. But you have all seen the melted cars. nuff sed.
John Hutchinson clearly showed the effects. Steel is butter to 3k heat. A simple invisible fuse beamed at the upper floors connected down the floors would do the trick.
ReplyDeleteI said ten years ago they had been planting thermite (explosives) ever since 1994 shortly after the WTC basement bombing which was the pretext to having CIA maintainance and goons in and out on a daily basis and get the sheeple so damned used to seeing the men in black that it was second nature.
By now the smoking gun is a freshly-fired row of brass napoleons.
ReplyDeleteTeevee viewers smell nothing as Fustercluck Nation goes down in flames...
And to those questions about melted cars and such....eutectic
ReplyDeletePETN is the main ingredient in det cord which is the most widely used high explosive in the controlled demolition industry.
PETN when ignited burns at approximately 8,100 deg F.
The surface of the sun is around 9,800 which makes the blast wave of a det cord explosion nearly as hot as the surface of the sun...
If they used a good deal of det cord in the floor systems to pulverize the floor systems, then yes, you would see a great deal of melted metal and plastic and everything else for that matter... which was proven by the RJ Group report Composition and Morphology of the 9/11 Dust from Ground Zero
They didn't need exotic explosives to do the job. In fact, they would prefer to know what they used would do exactly what it was supposed to do with that much on the line. All they had to do was control the crime scene and the results of the collected evidence... which they did.”~Willy Loman
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