re: #263 Dianna

Would someone please tell me what nano-thermite is supposed to be?

To begin with, thermite is a mixture of powdered aluminum and iron oxide that burns at an extremely high temperature. A high enough temperature to melt steel. Mixing the aluminum powder and iron oxide is not dangerous as it is quite stable and requires a lot of energy to initiate the thermite reaction.

Now “nano” is a prefix that is used to mean very small, it is derived from the metric scale in which nano denotes something that is a billionth (10^-9) of something in scale. For perspective a millimeter is 1000th (10^-3) of a meter. A micrometer is a millionth (10^-6) of a meter. A nanometer is a billionth (10^-9) of a meter.

Now “nano-thermite” would be thermite in which the grain size of the aluminum powder and iron oxide powder are extremely small. Much, much smaller than the grain size of ordinary thermite mixture. Supposedly the extremely small grain size lowers the level of energy required to initiate the reaction and may also allow the reaction to proceed more quickly than in ordinary thermite.

9/11 troofers appear to have sized upon nano-thermite with a vengeance. In the first 4 pages of Google results there are like 2 results that are not troofer nonsense.