Thermite
Thermite is a noun, easy to spell, easy to pronounce. It refers to a class of exothermic reactions between, typically, a metal and an oxide. That doesn't seem hard to understand.

An example of a thermitic reaction is that between iron oxide and aluminum. This reaction generates temperatures above 2000 degrees Celcius, well above the melting point of iron. Suitably placed, a thermite charge is thus able to slice through steel like a knife through butter.

Why would anyone care about thermite. Well apparently they don't. Not that one can tell from the corporate media at least. For as this Web search indicates, not a single major corporate news source has a story about thermite?

There you are then, why worry about it?
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Thermite and the Collapse of the World Trade Towers
Dramatic footage reveals yellow-to-white hot molten metal dripping from the South WTC Tower just minutes before its collapse. Photographs capture the same significant event, clearly showing liquid metal dropping from the South Tower, still hot as it nears the ground below. Who can deny that liquid, molten metal existed at the WTC disaster? The yellow color implies a molten-metal temperature of approximately 1000 C, evidently above that which the dark-smoke hydrocarbon fires in the Towers could produce. If aluminum (e.g., from the plane) had melted, it would melt and flow away from the heat source at its melting point of about 650 oC and thus would not reach the yellow color observed for this molten metal. Thus, molten aluminum is already ruled out with high probability. But molten iron with the characteristics seen in this video is in fact consistent with a thermite-reaction attacking the steel columns in the Tower, thus weakening the building just prior to its collapse, since thermite produces molten iron at yellow-to-white hot temperatures.
Prof. Stephen E. Jones

Those sneaky Afghans who attacked us (attacked us Canadians, that is, according to Defense Minister Gordy O'Connor) on 911 must have snuck into the Trade Towers and packed 'em with thermite before flying airliners into them. Except, of course it was folks from Egypt, Saudi, Lebanon and Dubai (UAI) who actually hijacked the planes. But no one holds a grudge against them. Not even though 13 of the 19 supposed hijackers were deployed by Bin Laden from Dubai. Heck no, the U.S. just sold nine defense contractors, who among other things make parts for the M-1 Abrams tank and the F-35 joint strike fighter, to Dubai. They even wanted to sell them the Port of New York. for Americans who may find themselves working for a Dubai owned company, it may be of interest to know that employment of foreign workers by Dubai companies under conditions likened to slavery is not unknown. The Emirates are also notable as a center for human trafficking and for the unrestricted use of child labor. But those are factors unlikely to be of concern the American administration. The Bush family, after all, have had their own interest in the slave trade. Documents from the US National Archive declassified last year link Grand-Daddy [Prescott] Bush to the Thyssen-controlled Consolidated Silesian Steel Company that made use of Nazi slave labour from Auschwitz. In 2004 a civil action for damages was brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz. And why not. "We're and empire now," administration insiders proclaim. So why not a few slaves. And how about dragging vanquished opponents in chains through the streets of Washington DC. They should've done that with Saddam before he shaved his beard. While they're about it, maybe its time for Americans to junk monotheism and take up a more manly paganism, with temples to Vishnu, the Rat God, Athena, Thor, and all the Gods of the Empire; with burnt offerings, vestal virgins, human sacrifice; with parades and pilgrimages. Yep, it would add real color to American life.

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