Mick West | Can you burn Iron on a Wood Fire? (9/11 related) @MickWest | Uploaded June 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
A couple of years ago I gave a talk on how there's lots of ways of making iron-rich microspheres, and hence the claim that finding them in building dust is evidence of explosives being used is pretty specious.
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (who think that explosives were used on 9/11, and the iron-rich microspheres in the dust were evidence of that) finally issued a rebuttal. A good part of this was focussed on the experiments I did based on the old Robert Hooke experiments, friction sparks and burning small specks of iron.
Their objection was that I used a really hot flame (a candle, which can apparently melt steel) whereas the flames in the World Trade Center were cooler, and could not melt steel. Regardless of the temperature, this all misses something pretty fundamental. The steel is not being melted, it's being burnt, similar to how you can burn steel wool.
And we know this because the exact same thing happens with a flame from burning wood or paper as it does with a candle. The small pieces of iron combust well before they melt.
Metabunk thread: metabunk.org/threads/ae911s-response-to-mick-wests-iron-microspheres-talk.11261
A couple of years ago I gave a talk on how there's lots of ways of making iron-rich microspheres, and hence the claim that finding them in building dust is evidence of explosives being used is pretty specious.
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (who think that explosives were used on 9/11, and the iron-rich microspheres in the dust were evidence of that) finally issued a rebuttal. A good part of this was focussed on the experiments I did based on the old Robert Hooke experiments, friction sparks and burning small specks of iron.
Their objection was that I used a really hot flame (a candle, which can apparently melt steel) whereas the flames in the World Trade Center were cooler, and could not melt steel. Regardless of the temperature, this all misses something pretty fundamental. The steel is not being melted, it's being burnt, similar to how you can burn steel wool.
And we know this because the exact same thing happens with a flame from burning wood or paper as it does with a candle. The small pieces of iron combust well before they melt.
Metabunk thread: metabunk.org/threads/ae911s-response-to-mick-wests-iron-microspheres-talk.11261
