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You use a fire fueled by carbon to melt steel in smithing.
It's not enough heat. You can't smelt steel with a crude setup. There's a reason why it took man a long time to progress through the various metal eras. Each step up from low melting point metals to high melting point metals required big jumps in the technology of producing hotter temperatures. Iron required a much hotter flame than bronze or copper. You can't just burn carbon and get that kind of heat with just ambient air to provide the oxidizer. Can you produce the heat needed to work tungsten in a black smith shop?
Exactly. You would need a much hotter setup, closer to smithing temperatures. Say, doesn't jet fuel burn that hot?
Exactly. You would need a much hotter setup, closer to smithing temperatures. Say, doesn't jet fuel burn that hot?
You're still missing an important variable here. There was not an unlimited amount of jet fuel and pure oxygen in the fire. Though jet fuel may burn hotter than wood, paper and other office materials, it would have run out quicker and it was spread among a larger area than a smith's furnace, which has refractory materials in it to keep the heat concentrated by the way. The towers were not built like smithing furnaces and the fuel was limited. It was a much bigger space and the heat just wasn't enough over that volume of space.
Thank you, that's where I was headed.
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