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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. |
It's commonly used in exterior conditions to create large, industrial joints and connections for trunk lines and high-tension electrical cabling. Ok. These things aren't found in buildings, they connect generating stations to centrals or transmission stations, substations, and the like, but the "smaller" extensions and connections are branched to progressively smaller network nodes and sub-transmission points (I don't know the technical terms) where the kind of thermite welding you're talking about is not found.
The main reason for doing it apart from stability and conductivity, is the fact that it's easier to bring a thermite welding kit or station to an impaired railroad tie or broken locomotive (or high-tension line tower in the middle of nowhere), than to do the opposite.
You're still showing me that thermite wasn't used in the construction or renovation of WTC buildings...