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47. NIST claimed that temperatures never reached the levels we are discussing...

Examination of photographs showed that 16 of the exterior panels recovered from WTC 1 were exposed
to fire prior to the building collapse. None of the nine recovered panels from within the fire floors of
WTC 2 were directly exposed to fire. NIST used two methods to estimate the maximum temperatures
that the steel members had reached:
• Observations of paint cracking due to thermal expansion. Of the more than 170 areas
examined on 16 perimeter column panels, only three columns had evidence that the steel
reached temperatures above 250 °C: east face, floor 98, inner web; east face, floor 92, inner
web; and north face, floor 98, floor truss connector. Only two core column specimens had
sufficient paint remaining to make such an analysis, and their temperatures did not reach
250 °C. NIST did not generalize these results, since the examined columns represented only
3 percent of the perimeter columns and 1 percent of the core columns from the fire floors.
• Observations of the microstructure of the steel. High temperature excursions, such as due to
a fire, can alter the basic structure of the steel and its mechanical properties. Using
metallographic analysis, NIST determined that there was no evidence that any of the samples
had reached temperatures above 600 ºC.

http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=909017

They also tested burning office furniture and said it never got above 900 degrees F.