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by networkjester 4879 days ago
Huh, learned some new things:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Are_diamonds_flammable Says diamonds are combustible around 1520 degrees.

But temperatures were 1000 degrees at the high-point in the 9/11 events (page 10 end of first paragrah): http://eagar.mit.edu/EagarPapers/Eagar185.pdf

Interesting enough. The bigger issue would have certainly been the buildings crumbling before they ever burst into flames/disintegrated.