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To: UCANSEE2
I concluded it was the aluminum rims from the cars. Many years ago in High School we had shop classes including metal. We would collect aluminum on trash night to melt down and cast into large "Jacks." The temperature to melt aluminum is 1220.58 °F.

What bothered me was some of the rims looked they were burned. Aluminum burns at 6920°F.

In the films there were three separate explosions. The last appeared to be a fuel air event. I have my doubts now about the official story coming out of Beijing.

I don't believe this was a surface event anymore.
64 posted on 08/15/2015 11:07:45 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: PA Engineer
"The last appeared to be a fuel air event."

If the firemen sprayed water on dispersed (from the small explosions) calcium carbide, that is exactly what you would get.....carbide plus water gives off acetylene gas. Mixed with air, the acetylene would make a very strong "fuel-air" mix.

80 posted on 08/16/2015 5:31:06 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (Newly fledged NRA Life Member (after many years as an "annual renewal" sort))
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To: PA Engineer
What bothered me was some of the rims looked they were burned. Aluminum burns at 6920°F.

Perhaps they were Aluminum-Magnesium alloy?

89 posted on 08/16/2015 7:50:34 AM PDT by null and void (Support Islamic Repatriation)
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