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Originally Posted by Rochard
Stop what your doing and read the page on Wikipedia about Thermite, would you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite
It says "thermite is used for welding together thick copper wires for the purpose of electrical connections. It is used extensively by the electrical utilities and telecommunications industries".
It is used by electrical utilities and telecommunications industries - both of which was massive in the world trade center.
Your making it sound like it's impossible to find thermite and I'm trying to tell you that it's very common. Any telephone trunk is going to have it. |
That's not entirely true. I was an electrician many moons ago and we did a
lot of commercial and industrial work (Procter & Gamble, GE, US Postal Service, and so on). Not once was thermite welding used during any job site I was ever on, and we had some big ones.
I'm not saying it's not used, but it's not as common (at least for most electrical work) as you are making it sound. However, for steel framing I could see how it would be used and I have no doubt it was used in the construction of those towers. I'm not surprised one bit that thermite was found in the rubble.