On Saturnalia night, Cathy and Harry learn more about philosophy, a clearer idea of the path they will take and what they will have to do to do it.

At the same time, their teacher, Richard, was busy in the Garden of Eden.

For Richard, he had decided on the choice of path many years ago, and he knew very well what the price would be, and he had no regrets about it.

Because he knows that everything will only make sense if the path he has chosen is cleared.

Otherwise, the rest of the pursuits, in the end, are likely to be just dream bubbles, which look beautiful, but in fact burst as soon as they are poked.

So can it be made through?

In the Garden of Eden, in the most heavily protected underground laboratory, a large reactor tank was filled with corrosive acid in one room.

Richard walked in in a chemical protection suit, and without hesitation, he quickly opened the lead box placed on the ground and poured the mineral powder inside into the reaction tank.

"Gollum!"

After special treatment, the mineral powder is extremely fine and the body is very small, which increases the area of reaction with acid to a certain extent and increases the reaction rate.

As a result, it can be seen with the naked eye that once the mineral powder and the acid come into contact, they begin to react violently and a large number of bubbles emerge.

The surface of the acid in the reaction cell is constantly tumbling, as if boiling water is boiling.

Richard was not surprised by this, and kept pouring boxes of mineral powder into the reaction pool, using mana to control the rotation of the acid, stirring thoroughly, and dissolving all the mineral powder.

In the end, I saw that the liquid in the entire reaction pool took on a deep dark green color, like a door, which could lead to the abyss, exuding a strange aura.

Richard took one look, completely ignoring the color of the solution, and almost without hesitation, began to take samples from the reaction cell.

The solution is absorbed into a beaker, divided into more than a dozen parts, and various solutions are added to it, and the phenomenon is observed, and the element composition and content contained in it are calculated.

It took hours to get the final result.

The dense numbers were written on a piece of papyrus, and Richard frowned deeply in thought after reading it.

Now he is conducting nuclear weapons research and manufacturing the uranium needed for the project, which is in the reaction pool, and the next thing to do is how to purify the uranium as much as possible.

This is not an easy task, after all, there is no 100% pure uranium ore, and the mineral powder added to the reaction tank has more or less impurities.

It doesn't matter if one impurity is mixed, but a dozen or dozens of impurities are mixed in it. Now the solution in the reaction pool is like a pot of porridge with dozens of raw materials, and it takes a lot of effort to accurately extract a raw material.

One of the feasible ways is to continue to add other substances to it, and react with the impurities in it to remove the impurities.

When the last impurity is completely cleaned, then all that remains is pure uranium.

Theoretically this is very simple, almost the level of high school chemistry on Earth.

But in practice, it's a bit tricky.

The first reason for the trickiness: there are too many impurities, as many as dozens of impurities, which affect each other. High school chemistry has to deal with just a few impurities, and the number here has increased tenfold, and the difficulty has increased by hundreds or thousands of times. Every step must be taken into account for the impact on all impurities, and if you make a mistake, you will lose all your efforts.

The second reason for the trickiness is that the substances to be added are restricted, and the cost and difficulty of preparation must be taken into account. At present, the amount of mineral powder in the reaction tank is not too much, but considering that once this experiment is successful, the scale will be expanded to hundreds or hundreds of times in the future, so the added substances must be easy to produce and low cost.

With all this in mind, Richard kept thinking.

Thinking about it, he sat down at a table in the room, holding a quill and doing quick calculations on papyrus.

"Rustling ......"

"Rustling ......"

A piece of papyrus was quickly filled, and Richard replaced it with a second papyrus.

The second papyrus was also filled after a while, and then the third papyrus was replaced.

Fourth, fifth......

Richard kept calculating and writing for hours before he stopped. At this time, the entire table top was covered with a thick layer of papyrus.

Looking at the contents of the last papyrus scrolls, Richard pursed his lips and deliberated, and after a few minutes, moved his hands.

Turning around and walking outside the laboratory, he returned with several heavy iron buckets in his hand.

When one of the iron barrels was opened, he saw that it was a light blue liquid, and Richard used an instrument to accurately measure a certain volume and inject it into the reaction cell.

The reaction cell, which had already calmed down, was suddenly filled with fine bubbles, indicating that gas had formed. At the same time, at the bottom of the reaction cell, there is a grayish-white precipitate.

Without verbosity, Richard operated the reaction cell, quickly filtered out the precipitate, and then measured another yellowish liquid with an instrument and poured it into the reaction cell.

"Goo-goo-goo!"

This time, there was no precipitation, but a large number of bubbles appeared, and the liquid in the reaction tank was also stained with a hint of yellow.

Richard quickly turned on the ventilation in the laboratory, sucked the gas out, and replaced it with an inert gas that barely reacted with the solution - helium - and he had his own oxygen cylinder in his hazmat suit to supply breathing, so he didn't have to worry about suffocation at all.

Once you've done that, go ahead.

Various substances are continuously added to the reaction cell to carry out a series of reactions.

Occasionally, after adding a substance, I will stop for a long time to think and do a lot of calculations.

Occasionally, a part of the solution in the reaction cell will be directly taken out and loaded into several other empty reaction cells in the laboratory, and different solutions will be added to each for comparative experiments.

This time, Richard was working with almost all of his brainpower.

Originally, if it was just a simple purification of uranium, there was no need for such trouble. He could have done it in some stupid way, but it would have been easier.

However, the purpose of this experiment is not to purify uranium, but more importantly, to summarize a practical, low-cost, and concise process to prepare for large-scale uranium refining in the future.

Therefore, the whole process should be optimized as much as possible, and every link should be done the best.

"Breathe—breathe—"

"Breathe—breathe—"

Richard was wearing a hazmat suit, constantly breathing, constantly thinking, and constantly operating.

Over time, the impurities in the reaction cell become less and less refined and purer.

After a long time, I don't know how much time has passed, Richard looked at the reaction pool solution that had become somewhat clear, exhaled a long breath in his protective suit, and smiled.

Although the uranium element has not yet been fully purified, he knows that this first step has basically been completed.

At this time, he looked at the reaction pool and could vaguely feel the faint energy emanating from it.

This energy is very inconspicuous, but he knows that if it continues to develop, it will become a force that will affect the world—maybe many forces can change the world, but it will be the biggest force, and the most irresistible force.

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