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In reply to the discussion: The End of the Road for NIST [View all]William Seger
(11,315 posts)40. Yes, they were paint chips
And no, the thermite chips nonsense has not been "merely denied." An independent study found that those flat platelets in Harrit's photos (which a materials scientist had visually identified as Kaolinite, aluminum silicate) were indeed aluminum silicate, along with iron oxide, in an epoxy resin matrix. In other words: paint, just as qualified people had been saying all along. Unlike Harrit, this study actually tested for elemental aluminum -- as any proper scientific testing should have done -- and found none. No elemental aluminum means that no thermitic reaction is possible, period.
You are the one in denial, so maybe some of the rest of your diatribe applies to you as well.
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