In his speech, Trump refers to the WTC collapse as an "IMPLOSION"
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You can melt steel with a propane flame. This is how a gas blacksmithing forge works. Same idea could be expanded to fire within an elevator shaft. The column of rising air/flame would be superheated within this flue via convection. Explanations like these were given in the weeks after 9/11 and for a long time it stopped me thinking about it deeper. Easy to conceive that the jet fuel could have pooled at the base of the building(s) or coated the insides of the elevator shafts, ignited, and the high heat generated would have absolutely weakened the steel structure.
However... jet fuels are kerosene based. Pour some on your hand or fill up a bucket with it then try and light it. It won't. It must be aerolized into extremenly fine vapor via the jet engine injectors before it can be ignited. "But but but, that's what happened when the planes hit the building guyz!!!". That would have meant an immediate explosion which you do see in footage of the Twin Towers hits. That likely consumed most of the fuel right there and if so then none left to feed the flames that supposedly weakened the steel. A big circle of thought that eventually led me to "That could not have happened and if it did, what was the fuel source?".
Have you ever tried to cut steel with propane? I have and it takes forever to get it hot enough before you hit the blow lever.
No, I use a plasma cutter.
Either way the tops of the towers would gradually buckle under the weight and not snap simultaneously. It would also occur in an uneven fashion since the fires and impacts were not symmetrical they could not fall in the exact same way.