Chapter 730: A Slightly Absurd Miracle
"Hou Hou Hou ...... Master Hou! Zhang Laodao's face collapsed, and he almost knelt down for Xia Hongsheng: "You, you, did you promise that if Xiaodao made something that could make the fire glow and change color, you would bypass Xiaodao's ......"
When the Hu man saw Zhang Laodao's appearance, he immediately began to bow and beg for mercy, and the not very proficient Chinese was mixed with a few sentences that Xia Hongsheng couldn't understand the language. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Xia Hongsheng understood that Zhang Laodao had misunderstood him, thinking that he was looking for trouble with them, so he smiled and waved his hand, and said: "Ben Hou is not trying to embarrass you, what Ben Hou said is true." You have inadvertently come up with something that you don't know, but Ben Hou does. This kind of thing is of great use to Datang, and the two of you have made meritorious contributions to Datang. After Ben Hou reports this matter to His Majesty, the two of you can enter the Military Aircraft Workshop and become a registered scientific and technological personnel of the Tang Dynasty. The court will provide you with a place to live, and your family will be protected by the court. Hehe, congratulations to the two of you, you will be a member of the court from now on. ”
"Huh?" Zhang Laodao was taken aback, his mouth opened wide, and his eyes were staring at Lao Yuan, who was puzzled: "This, this...... Master Hou, what the hell is going on! ”
"Hehe, the last time the alchemy furnace exploded, Ben Hou should have thought of it a long time ago." Xia Hongsheng said to the two: "You accidentally mixed three things, and refined another thing. It was the characteristics of this thing that led to the explosion of the alchemy furnace. At that time, Ben Hou didn't think about it, so he ignored it. When I heard your words today, I suddenly remembered. ”
"What does Hou Ye mean...... We've created a new substance! The alchemist's eyes widened and he asked.
Xia Hongsheng nodded: "Not bad." The furnace had calcined the alum before, and there was some alum left in the furnace. Later, saltpeter was reched. It is equivalent to saying that while the saltpeter is being refrigerated, the green alum remaining in it is also calcined. Calcining alum produced sulfuric acid, and distillation of saltpeter produced nitric acid. Both of these things exist in the furnace at the same time. Originally, it would not have exploded at this time. However, because you were holding something next to the stove at the time, the grease in it accidentally fell into the furnace, and by mistake, it was refined into glycerin. Glycerin was mixed with sulfuric acid and nitric acid, and just like that, the blind cat ran into a dead mouse, and finally formed a substance, ********. It was this ******** that caused the furnace to burst. ”
After a pause, Xia Hongsheng said: "The temperature inside the furnace is high, and when the ******** reaches a certain temperature********, it will cause an extremely violent explosion. Otherwise, I'm afraid that you will already be crushed and blown out of a puddle of meat mud at that time! “
Zhang Laodao and the alchemist didn't understand what Xia Hongsheng said, they just looked stunned and stunned.
But Xia Hongsheng was very excited in his heart, and he also felt a burst of amusement.
An extremely important link in the history of gunpowder, ********, was unexpectedly made out by the two people in front of him who were confused throughout the whole process! The way this appears is too child's play!
It is a yellow oily transparent liquid obtained by glycerin treated with sulfuric acid and nitric acid, which has a very low explosion point and is extremely unstable, and vibration can make it explode. Moreover, the explosion of the ******** was very violent, and the power was far more violent than that of black powder.
Calcined alum, sulfuric acid was obtained. Dry distillation of saltpeter to obtain nitric acid. Natural animal fats and fats are a source of glycerin. The three of them came together by mistake, what a small probability.
Moreover, glycerol is not so easy to produce. Although it exists in natural animal and vegetable oils, it is mixed and not pure. Even if it is hydrolyzed, it is crude glycerin, and it has to go through distillation and other processes before it can become usable glycerin. This glycerin is truly ******** after it has been treated with nitric acid and sulfuric acid.
It's nothing short of an unexpected miracle!
However, the danger is always proportional to the profit. The power is huge, and the process of making it is also quite dangerous. Because it is too unstable, in the process of production, there is a danger of explosion caused by cold and heat, impact, friction, open flame and high heat, and it is very likely to explode at any time and cause safety accidents. It's not possible to manufacture safely now.
I remember that it seems that Nobel used some method to improve the process of manufacturing ********, which greatly reduced the risk, so that the ******** could be mass-produced.
But what is the method?
Because it has been seen on the news in later generations, ******** bombs have become the favorite of small-scale terrorists because of their simple materials and easy production. So it shouldn't be difficult, right?
By the way, it seems that it can still be cured? In the later life, I saw an old teacher who was about to retire use it once, took a piece and put it under his tongue, saying that it could give first aid...... Angina?
Xia Hongsheng scratched his head, a miracle, it's a miracle! With this thing, in the future, when the mountains are opened to build roads, and the city is mined, there will be something more powerful than black powder!
By the way, it seems that later ******** need to be detonated with gunpowder? ****? I go, and how is this done? How?
Alas! Learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, and you will not be afraid to go all over the world. Ben Gongzi regrets not studying hard!
Xia Hongsheng sighed, explained that Qi Yong sent someone to watch the two of them, and then reported the matter to the emperor, and then handed them over to the military machine workshop for registration.
After witnessing an unexpected, somewhat funny, and extremely bloody miracle, Xia Hongsheng's mood suddenly brightened. Before, because I was going to set off at the end of this month, if I didn't be able to do fireworks anymore, it seemed to be swept away.
Putting on a relaxed mood, as soon as Xia Hongsheng arrived at the academy, he continued to burrow into a separate laboratory far away from other buildings, and continued to make light beads.
The light beads are wrapped in gunpowder, which is a delicate work. The gunpowder is too dry to wrap up, so it should be drizzled with alcohol. Wrap one layer, to dry, and after drying, wrap another layer. Each coat of gunpowder is dried. Until the gunpowder wrapped around the light bead is estimated to be able to ignite the light bead.
Under the light beads, there is still a continuous filling of gunpowder, but the gunpowder must be mixed with soil, so that the gunpowder burns and explodes to produce thrust, and the upper half containing the light beads is sent into the air, but the explosion is not too violent and "explodes".
At night, there was another loud thunderous sound from Jingyang Academy.
Xia Hongsheng, who was tilting his head, looked at it for a while and retracted his gaze. It's a lot better than the last time, and if you continue to experiment, you're not far from success. (To be continued.) )