Originally Posted by
WilliamSeger
Since we're left with speculating, I'd bet even money that Basile realized that sending the "wrong" chips to a lab would be a disaster, so he decided he'd better do some probative testing first, and now he can't find any thermite.
That's my hunch, too.
And similarly, that's where Jeff Farrer entirely left da Twoof - when he couldn't find any elemental Al, only kaolin and perhaps calcium aluminates, in the very chips he presented in Harrit et al (2009).
If there is anything that scares Truthers, it's the actual truth.