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You pour water on the ashes so that embers don't fly into the woods and cause a forest fire. Just like when you're camping on the beach - you can just cover the fire with sand. Sand also puts it out by cutting off it's supply of oxygen. But I guess you just forgot that part.
Remember this - oxygen is one of the three components needed for combustion with the other two being fuel and heat.
So tell me, how did red-hot molten steel defy such amazing odds by staying in it's molten liquid form in an oxygen deprived, suffocatingly compacted environment which was under thousands of tons of pressure in a sub-basement level of the WTC complexes?
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There's an automatic assumption here that just because there were tons of rubble means somehow that ALL the oxygen was miraculously cut off.
I'm willing to bet that obviously, it wasn't and since they did find molten liquid, it only furthers my point.
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I think your conspiracy theory of the jet fuel melting the steel in the first place is further of a stretch than the one that says that controlled demolitions may have brought those buildings down. There was nothing in them that could have burned hot enough to melt steel in the first place - except maybe some high-explosive cutting charges. |
Except I never said it was the 'jet fuel' as was suggested by this:
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How did a fire fed by jet fuel, which at most burns at 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit, cause the collapse of the Twin Towers, built of steel that melts at 2,800 degrees? (Most experts agree that the impact of airliners, made mostly of lightweight aluminum, should not have been enough alone to cause structural failure.) How could a single planeload of burning jet fuel -- most of which flared off in the initial fireball -- cause the South World Trade Center tower to collapse in just 56 minutes?
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...in fact, quite the opposite, I questioned it myself:
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In my eyes the plane was just the catalyst to the whole structural problem. It was like adding a lit match stick to a cord of dry firewood.
So while the question raised about the jet fuel and the melting point of steel may be valid, it certainly doesn't take into account all the factors as to why the steel melted.
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There's no way the jet fuel could have done that by itself. 
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