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Neither, it was riveted together.
Initially the pieces were assembled in the factory using bolts, and then were replaced one by one with heated rivets, which contracted during cooling creating a very tight fit.
Only a third of the 2,500,000 rivets used in the construction of the Tower were inserted directly on site as preassembled and riveted pieces were built off site.
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MASON HOLMES
I was riveted because extreme heat will destroy the strength of the union
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