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The study of steel recovered from the site of the fallen World Trade Center towers and the WTC-7 building in New York City will be a critical component of the pending National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) building and fire safety investigation of the disaster. Since February, the Commerce Department's NIST has been storing steel at its Gaithersburg, MD, headquarters. A small portion of the steel has been transferred to NIST's Boulder, CO, laboratories for future analysis.

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