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to: Charles Angelich
from: Joe Nicholson
date: 2002-12-20 13:50:00
subject: Word Trade Center

-=> Quoting Charles Angelich to Joe Nicholson <=-

 >> He doesn't have to bring a lunch and wait to melt the
 >> steel. Just heat it to the point where it loses much of
 >> its strength and begins to sag. Then all the weight above
 >> it begins to tumble down.

 > Heat steel girders over an open flame for the rest of your
 > life and it won't melt. A paper clip, maybe.
 
 I didn't say, nor has anyone else ever said, that the steel
 melted.  It warped, it twisted, it sagged, and it lost its
 textile strength.  And it was not able to support the weight
 above after it reached that point.

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