Chapter 271: Elemental
When Kemo Stoll returned home from today's test, his wife had already prepared baked bread and mushroom soup, and poured him a glass of white wine. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The latter two are goods sold in the convenience market, especially this large, white mushroom, as the introduction on the sign: you won't find a more delicious taste than this, and he found out that it was true after tasting it. As soon as you eat one slice, it's hard to forget this full and unique taste.
Of course, its price is also very staggering, the palm size of the one needs a silver wolf, if it is not for the good salary, Kaimo is reluctant to buy such expensive food. There are many more things like this, such as soap, mirrors, and as long as you have money, life in a small town is far more comfortable than that of the average nobleman.
Roland is simply unfathomable, and this is what he feels the most.
After dinner, his wife handed over a letter.
"What is this?"
"The guards sent it in the afternoon, and you haven't come back yet," the wife said as she gathered the dishes, "I heard him say that it seems to be from Chishui City." ”
"Really?" Camo walked into the study, cut open the seal with a knife, and took out the letter and spread it out.
The first sentence at the beginning is actually hello, dear teacher.
It was a letter from Chames, and he couldn't help but smile as he sat down at his desk and read it.
It turned out that after he left the Alchemy Workshop in Chishui City, another alchemist, Capora, became the new chief. However, this man was narrow-minded, and after obtaining the crystal glass recipe left by Kaimo, he not only declared to the lord that it was the work of him and Kaimo, but also intentionally or unintentionally excluded Chames in the alchemy experiment.
In the letter, he complained that perhaps it was because he borrowed Capola's apprentice when he was exploring the two-stone acid method, but in the end he did not inform the other party of the results in advance. Now several other alchemists seem to have begun to avoid him, consciously or unconsciously, much to the annoyance of Chames.
Kemo could probably understand the thoughts of these people, as Chames was the youngest alchemist in the refining room, and many people thought that he had only stood out from the crowd of disciples by luck and his own appreciation. But the chief alchemist scoffed at this view, saltpeter and alum were commonplace, and why it was Chammeth who discovered the two-stone acid method and not the others was enough to tell the story. Observation, memory, bold conjecture and careful experimentation are all indispensable, and the young man's talent is even higher than his own.
At the end, Chames also attached two alchemical formulas to the letter, saying that he had recently made a new discovery in the study of two acids, and shared them with his mentor. And Kemo can see at a glance that the essence of the two formulas is nothing more than the neutralization reaction of acid and alkali to produce salts, and he can write more than a dozen such formulas in one breath.
With a sigh, Kemo Stoll put down the letter and moved his gaze back to the book of Elementary Chemistry on the table, which had been flipped over several times.
What changed everything was the "ancient book" that His Royal Highness handed over to him. If it weren't for it, I'm afraid I would still be like Chames, still rummaging through the surface dirt in chaos and confusion, and treating it as a treasure.
He took the book and flipped straight to the last page.
It was a table neatly divided into a hundred or so squares.
Every time he saw this form, he couldn't help but get goosebumps and feel indescribable reverence in his heart...... and fear.
The upper left corner of the grid is marked with a small serial number, and at the end there is a total of 118 numbers, except for the first two rows, most of the cells are blank, but some are filled in with symbols in the middle. For example, trumpet twenty-six: iron, twentieth: copper.
The name of the table is "Periodic Table".
The chief alchemist once trembled and held the book in his hand and asked Roland about the contents of the blank space, but the answer he received was that it was originally filled, but he really couldn't remember it.
If the other party is not His Royal Highness the Prince, what he wants to do most is to slap the whole book on the other party's face.
According to the book, this table encompasses all the elements of the world - if alchemy exists in the Holy Text, it is undoubtedly the most brilliant chapter in the Holy Text. And what frightened him was what kind of people could draw such a diagram, and if they had done so, what was alchemy? It was just a castle built crookedly by a bunch of children in the mud and sand.
Kemo suddenly remembered His Highness's promise that if he could call Chames over and bring in a group of apprentices who were too late to take him with him last time, maybe he would be able to fill the three new laboratories. In this way, the coveted "Medium Chemistry" can also be in your hands.
Thinking of this, he immediately pulled out a blank piece of paper and began to write a reply.
In fact, when His Royal Highness asked him at the meeting if he had any idea about large-scale acid production, he did not tell the truth, because it was complicated and lengthy, and it was a waste of time to talk about it. On top of that, he didn't know if it would work, since the method he had envisioned was entirely based on the elements and reaction principles in the books.
Compared to previous experiments in alchemy, this assumption is even a bit like a child's whisper in a dream—to make something that seems unrelated to the raw material with something that has never been seen before and a reaction that has never been heard of before, just because it has the same element.
But Kemo Stoll had a hunch that this might work!
After all, hundreds of previous substitution tests have all shown the correctness of what this book says.
With the initial plan in place, the next step is to complete a full set of theoretical tests in the laboratory, because His Highness said that the process of products that can be made on a large scale by industrial methods can also be reproduced in the laboratory.
The letter was quickly written, and he did not persuade Charles too much, but directly told the former disciple about the knowable, measurable and desirable aspects of alchemy. Kaimo believed that any wise man who was interested in alchemy would not let go of such an opportunity to witness the truth.
Fold the letter and stuff it in an envelope, put it in wax, and then just wait for tomorrow to hand it over to the merchant who is willing to deliver the letter.
After doing all this, his gaze moved to the periodic table again.
If the blank space on the table is not filled, Cammo will only feel that the rest of his life is no fun, but fortunately, the latter words of His Royal Highness Roland made his heart surge, and those words still linger in his ears-
Don't put on that face, every element on the periodic table is arranged in a regular pattern, and you can fill it up on your own.
Law...... Do you mean that unknown elements can also be derived, just as alchemical formulas can be derived?
That's right, even if you've never seen them before, you can describe what they look like and what they are.
That...... What is this law?
You want to know? It's all in Medium Chemistry. (To be continued.) )