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Chapter 56 Smokeless Gunpowder
Feng Yu wants to make a simple human-powered or animal-powered machine tool. Among other things, Dick can help him solve the problem of low-precision gears and transmissions, but the high-hardness alloy cutter heads and drill bits of machine tools are the domain of alchemists.

As for Feng Yu's request, how could Clarence, who is half of Feng Yu's student, refuse, he agreed without thinking.

This requirement is met. As Clarence, who likes to study metal alloys, he is not good at Feng Yu's super gunpowder research. Feng Yu also knows Clarence's expertise and does not count on him. He came here today to let Clarence The alchemy laboratory of the company helped.

In fact, it is also his fault for thinking things too simply. This world doesn’t even have the two basic sciences of physics and chemistry. Inventing things is all about luck. It’s better to expect them to develop high-efficiency gunpowder than Feng Yu himself.

Feng Yu, who couldn't wait any longer, came here by himself. Not only did he have to borrow Clarence's laboratory, but he also had to ask everyone in Clarence's laboratory to be his assistant, so he slowly talked.

After listening to Feng Yu's explanation of the principle of gunpowder, Anthony found him a method that could replace high-efficiency gunpowder, and that was the magic circle.

Release the reduced-power wind magic violent wind through the micro-sculpture magic circle, which can play the role of black powder and push the projectile out.

But there is a problem with this thing, that is, the primer of the magic circle is the magic crystal. The value of this thing is one in Pangea, and anyone who doesn't know that it is expensive is just one word.

Although the elves are still a bit old-fashioned, they can't stand the consumption.

You must know that firearms are the little brothers among hot weapons. What about the god of war cannons, one top-level magic crystal in one shot?Then it would be better to send the magic crystal to the magician and let them use the magic of refurbishment to fight.

After learning about Feng Yu's intentions, Clarence not only did not show any displeasure, but was very happy. He was looking forward to experiencing the operation mode of Feng Yu's laboratory for himself.

Although he is also getting closer to the experimental mode Feng Yu said, he can't find that silky smooth feeling, but feels awkward everywhere.

Clarence called all the people in the laboratory, including the apprentice who followed Feng Yu's lectures. Only after Clarence's introduction did Feng Yu know that this half-elf boy who was ordered around by Clarence actually Is an official magician.

Feng Yu asked Kararence if they had the kind of liquid that can quickly corrode metals, and got an affirmative answer, there are not many, there are three kinds.

After Clarence asked his assistants to fetch the liquid, Feng Yu arranged for them to mark the name of the liquid on the container, and then went through the process according to Clarence's request, so that Clarence and his assistants could learn.

Feng Yu took out a blackboard and wrote on it:
The purpose of the experiment is to prepare high-efficiency gunpowder.

The method is to soak the cotton fiber fabric in an acidic corrosive solution.

After finishing writing, Feng Yu said: "My profession is far from alchemy, and I have only heard about this formula, so I will trouble everyone to help me experiment."

After Feng Yu finished speaking, he was not polite, and arranged three kinds of acid solutions to soak cotton fabrics alone or in combination, and each person was responsible for one kind.Heat the wet fabric with fire and observe its reaction.

After assigning the experimental items, Feng Yu waited for the results.

Maybe the fairy sister who sent Feng Yu here didn't want to see him fail. This kind of nitrocellulose that only works on the earth has been produced in another world, although Feng Yu doesn't know what the composition of the liquid is. .

Good news came from the young man in charge of mixing the two liquids. He reported to Feng Yu and Clarence that after the liquid he was responsible for soaked the cotton ball, the wet cotton ball detonated after approaching the flame. Except for the extremely rare ashes, It was completely burned, as if it had disappeared.

Feng Yu immediately recorded the two liquids, and asked Clarence whether the two liquids could be produced on a large scale. After getting a positive answer, Feng Yu was very happy.

After repeating the experiment to confirm the effect, he asked his assistant to re-mix the mixed solution in the locker, then soaked a lot of cotton cloth fragments, and took out three sealed porcelain bottles from the box he brought.

This was made by Feng Yu's painstaking efforts in the online library. The porcelain bottle contained high alcohol that was distilled after consuming Alan's three tanks of swill wine.

By the way, Feng Yu felt that he used the large pottery vats he made to make swill wine for Alan, and he really felt wronged by those large vats.

Feng Yu poured out some alcohol and put a piece of soaked cotton cloth in it. Sure enough, the wet cotton ball slowly dissolved.He divided the solution into several parts, tested the several stabilizers he brought, and finally one of them turned the solution into a jelly.

Feng Yu carefully took out the jelly, took out a small amount and pressed it into flakes, then cut it into thin strips and dried it to harden.He cut the obtained hardened strip into small particles, and compared the ignition effect with the same gunpowder.

It can be seen with the naked eye that the power of the small black particles erupting is much stronger than that of dwarf gunpowder, and unlike dwarf gunpowder, there is only a small amount of green smoke coming out, which makes Feng Yu feel a sense of destiny, thinking The thrill of success.

He also arranged for assistants to prepare different gunpowder granules for comparison by adjusting the amount of alcohol solution and the dose of stabilizer, and finally got an obviously more appropriate ratio.

Clarence stood aside blankly, and said, "The dwarves haven't updated the formula for hundreds of years, and you made it so simply?"

Feng smiled modestly and said, "That's because my hometown has already had this plan, otherwise who would have thought of making gunpowder with liquid and cotton cloth!"

Clarence nodded: "It's also... No, how did you come up with it?"

Feng Yu asked Kararence with a smile: "If you happened to spill these two liquids on the experimental table, and there was a cotton rag on the experimental table, what would you do?"

Clarence said in surprise: "Wipe it off!...Then the rag that has absorbed the corrosive liquid can no longer be used, so it is thrown into the stove and burned!"

"That's right, that master did the same thing. Before he threw the rag into the stove, the high temperature ignited the rag. After the deflagration, there was no ash left in a large ball of rag. The master of gunpowder was amazed.

So this kind of high-efficiency gunpowder was born under the circumstances of extreme coincidence.

However, the master directly dried this rag and made it into gunpowder. That kind of gunpowder is very dangerous, and even deflagrates by itself.The latter method of dissolving and making lumps of gunpowder is the masterpiece of another master.

It was these two masters that we used powerful and safe smokeless gunpowder. "

(End of this chapter)