Reply #36: Did you read this part? [View All]

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As in a stubborn coal mine fire, the combustion taking place deep below the surface is in many places not a fire at all. Instead, oxygen is charring the surfaces of buried fuels in a slow burn more akin to what is seen in the glowing coals of a raked-over campfire. But the scale of the trade center burning is vast, with thousands of plastic computers, acres of flammable carpet, tons of office furniture and steel and reservoirs of hydraulic oil and other fuels piled upon one another.
Steel beams pulled from the debris at times are so hot they are cherry red. Benzene, propylene, styrene and other chemicals generated by the combustion of computers, office products and fuels drift through the air. And at times, plumes of this smoke are still carried across Lower Manhattan, into City Hall, down to Wall Street, and up through TriBeCa, a relentless reminder of that morning on Sept. 11.

The part about the RELATIVELY LOW TEMPERATURES OF THE TRADE CENTER FIRES is being misinterpreted by you. Just prior to that sentence the article was speaking about the incineration of toxins.

In a hot flaming fire, many toxic chemicals are incinerated, with little given off except carbon soot, carbon dioxide, water vapor and other fairly innocuous emissions.

This is an area I know quite a bit about. Most incinerator operate well over 2000 deg F. If some of the steel beams pulled out of the WTC rubble were glowing red hot, then the temps were well over 1000 deg F. Hot enough to melt aluminum and is a relatively low temp compared to incineration temps