On 29/06/2006, at 2:25 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
Explosive, you say? This is kerosene, not gasoline. Try this at
home (away
from flammable stuff). Put some kerosene in a glass (don't use
styrofoam).
Light a match. Stick it in the kerosene. It will go out. Do not
try this
with gasoline.
Try it again by getting a glass bottle full of kerosene, sticking a
lit rag in the neck, and throwing it into your office through a window.
You *can* put a match out in gasoline too. It's the air/fuel mixture
that's important. Shredding an aircraft half full of fuel through a
building will mix the air and the fuel pretty well. Add lots of wicky
stuff, and that's a good raging fire.
And yes, it's kerosene, not gasoline. Lower octane rating. But the
flashpoints of the two are close enough to one another (-40 C for
gasoline, 29 C for kerosene, which is a lot in human space but
nothing
for chemistry) that any spark hot enough to light a cigarette
would set
them off.
Baloney. Really. I've used a lot of kerosene to start fires (to
burn brush
at my parent's farm) and I can assure you that it is not so easy to
ignite.
It is nowhere near as volatile as gasoline.
But still pretty volatile when heated. Once that fire's going, it
goes good, right? Well, you've got flames in the WTC from the engines
exploding anyway. That'll set the rest off nicely.
Wasn't that the just-reinforced face? And why were the engine
parts at the
Pentagon from a different airplane? That's the sort of thing I'd like
explained.
A different airplane? That I've not heard. Source?
Charlie
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