"In that case, you may be seated. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Yang Mingzhi sat down first, folded his hands, and stared at a pair of keen eyes.

Ivanov had already taken off his hat, and his shiny celestial lid proved that the smart head did not grow hair. He knew what the Chinese wanted to ask, so he sat down and said, "Let's get into the topic, I will explain this matter myself the day after tomorrow." And those fertilizer equipment, which is also acquired. ”

"That's right! Now things have changed, and I'm interested in those damn peats. You should have guessed how I'm feeling right now, and you should have told me at the beginning that you were experimenting with peat. ”

How did this middle-aged man get more than a pound of ammonium nitrate overnight, Yang Mingzhi thought that there was nothing wrong with it. But now that I think about it, with the rare olefin material of charcoal, the efficiency of synthesizing ammonia is not as large as the amount of methane fermented by human feces and urine!

The reason why he was so efficient was clear - this man had been using peat as a raw material from the beginning.

Yang Mingzhi still looked serious, and snapped his fingers: "Who is that, this is already a meeting." You record everything we say. ”

This peat seems to be a good thing, but it probably can't match the effect of even the inferior lignite. At least Yang Mingzhi thinks so, since Ivanov has proved that peat can be used very well, then this guy has to explain it well.

Faced with such a question, Ivanov did not find it strange, in fact, he did explain it well.

"Well, division commander and deputy division commander, now I will explain to you our Belarusian peat:

First of all, this peat is a coal with a very low coalification, and its performance is not as good as that of lignite. You may not believe it, but coal is made of trees and plants, and we are in the Pripett swamps, where the muddy ponds are very suitable for the decay of vegetation, and the dust eventually returns to the earth and merges into the earth, and their final result is to turn into coal, and now they are in the process of transformation. In fact, in the long future, our land will become a coal mine, and the transition from vegetation to coal has just begun. ”

Yang Mingzhi nodded as he listened, and then looked at the expression of Yevlov beside him, he pouted with a tense face, it seems that these answers are too advanced for this person with little knowledge.

"I understand what you said." Yang Mingzhi put down his hands and had a happy expression, "That means we are actually sitting on a coal field?" ”

Ivanov shook his head: "Theoretically, on the other hand, it is not. ”

"Oh? What do you mean by that? ”

"From the point of view of developing industry, this peat is not coal at all. We develop heavy industry, smelt steel, build power stations to generate electricity, and we need high-quality coking coal. There are many types of coal, the best of which is anthracite coking coal, and the least is lignite. And in the swamps, and indeed in the whole of Belarus, there are not even lignite mines, and it is too ironic that peat is simply everywhere. There are too many miscellaneous things in this kind of material, and the calorific value is very low, so there is basically no use value. ”

Yang Mingzhi nodded seriously: "So what about the other side?" ”

"From a civilian point of view, it's also coal. I have to say, especially in the case of the village of black soil, Comrade Deputy Division Commander, why do you think Volmansky's territory is full of black soil. ”

"It's peat?!" Yang Mingzhi suddenly realized that the quality of their land is poor, so the yield of potatoes is also low, and this is the reason for rolling roots and grounding? No! Wait a minute. Isn't it because there is a lot of peat soil in the previous analysis? It's a terribly fertile soil.

Ivanov continued: "I know what kind of soil is in this area, and in a radius of twenty kilometers around the blacksmith village, seventy percent of the land is peat, and the rest is peat.

Peat soils have a relatively high degree of mineralization, low nitrogen content, and basically no fertility. In particular, the lack of fiber in it makes the peat soil too dense and has poor air permeability. In this environment, only strong grass can survive, and the rest are large trees such as red pine and white birch.

As for peat, it is already available as fuel. On the surface, it resembles a kind of soil, closer in composition to coal. For no other reason, the peat is full of olefins, which are completely nitrogen-free, and contain some miscellaneous materials.

In fact, completely dried peat can be used as fuel, but it is very dangerous, because there are too many impurities and often does not burn sufficiently, we use it as a briquette, and the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning is more serious. ”

He said these words without the slightest hint of apprehension, which means that the man was confident in the so-called peat.

Ivanov looked straight at himself, and Yang Mingzhi knew that he was waiting for his reply.

Thinking about this guy's lengthy words just now, a few key questions are on the table. That is, the most abundant peat in Belarus, the economic benefits of industrialization are terrible, and agriculture is even more difficult to avoid, and civilians must be extremely careful when using briquettes.

No! Wait a minute! Just this guy said carbon monoxide!

Yang Mingzhi only felt that the light bulb above his head suddenly turned on, so he asked happily: "Ivanov, you say it again." What will be produced in large quantities when this peat is not burned sufficiently?! ”

"It's carbon monoxide! Comrade Berekov! I think you know what this substance means! ”

"Of course I do!" Suddenly, he slapped the table hard, and suddenly woke up Yevlov, who was in a fog.

"We need a lot of carbon monoxide to produce ammonia, and the nitrogen in the furnace and air is thoroughly mixed under high temperature and pressure, and then it is fed into the clean water we have prepared, which is ammonia that is worse than urine!"

Ivanov was also excited: "Yes, Comrade Berekov. Speaking of which, with your knowledge of chemistry, you should be able to understand that with this peat, we can not only produce ammonia, but also many of the most important things in mass production. ”

As long as you think about it according to this idea, once ammonia can be mass-produced, the method that was originally used in the 17th century to treat human and animal manure by nitrifying bacteria to make nitrate can be eliminated! Because, as long as the ammonia and plant ash are mixed, this hehehehe

In fact, there is an even crazier method, that is, to put the airdropped table salt into ammonia, so that the result is sodium nitrate. Black powder made from it is more powerful, and the only drawback is that it is more susceptible to moisture than potassium nitrate. Of course, the frenzied use of precious salt as ammunition raw material is really a suicide act with water in the brain.

In front of Yang Mingzhi, it was as if the door to a new world had opened. If the problem of ammunition that the troops need the most can be solved by themselves, then the superiors will not have to frequently drop ammunition by air, and it will be more useful to replace it with daily necessities and food!

Thinking of this, Yang Mingzhi couldn't help but applaud. "Very good, this is great, God bless us, we better build a fertilizer plant right away, I can't wait for ammonia to be produced continuously." After all, it can act as an inferior nitrogen fertilizer on its own, and if we want to produce potatoes next season, we better produce them immediately. In order for us to produce gunpowder and explosives in the future, it is also very necessary to save part of the labor force from the terrible environment of making nitrate from the manure pits. ”