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Chapter 105 Synthetic Resin

Purficott had no intention of creating the Philosopher's Stone here, and she certainly didn't have the strength to do so.

Although she had obtained the title of Royal Chartered Alchemist at the age of fourteen, she was still far from being able to create the Philosopher's Stone.

Even with the notes and a large amount of research materials left by his parents, all Perficott has been able to do so far is to yellow matter.

And she also needs the assistance of the Philosopher's Stone to achieve this step. On her own, she can achieve almost perfect whitening, and occasionally successfully yellow the material.

It doesn't sound like much at first, but if you connect this with the fact that most of the alchemists in the empire have been pursuing turning stone into gold all their lives, and can't even turn it into gold, it's enough to see what kind of genius Perficott is. .

All in all, for Purficott, if she just wants to give herself an air mattress, she naturally does not need to go through such a process of becoming black, white, and yellow.

But she doesn't just want to make herself an air mattress, she also hopes to roll out artificial rubber or plastic.

This can be regarded as a temporary idea. She has tried to do this before, but what she got was always some specious products.

Although it cannot be said that there is no progress, the results achieved can only be described as unsatisfactory.

Either she herself couldn't figure out the ingredients of this thing, or the thing she made was simply not possible for industrial mass production, and worst of all, the performance couldn't satisfy Purficott.

The so-called plastic is as hard as a stone. Although plastic is indeed hard, it will also become soft after processing.

However, what she made was really just a somewhat special stone.

At this time, Purficott felt that his thinking had gone astray, or that he had made a mistake somewhere. I want to completely overturn my research.

On the other hand, in terms of artificial rubber, Purficott managed to make some achievements, which were able to achieve the performance she wanted. However, the durability of the material was very problematic. It could neither withstand high temperatures nor be used for a long time. It usually would It ages, becomes hard and brittle within a few days.

Purficott was actually not surprised that there would be such a result.

Although plastic was something she often saw in her daily life before time travel, plastic itself does not refer to a certain material, but the abbreviation of the entire category of plastic materials. There are more than a dozen common plastics. So many.

Simply put, the so-called plastic is a kind of synthetic or natural polymer compound that can be arbitrarily molded into various shapes or plastic material products that can maintain the same shape.

This definition alone is enough to illustrate how broad the application fields of this material are.

But artificially synthesizing a compound is not a simple matter.

Even if an alchemist wants to develop a brand new material, it will take time and a lot of investment.

What Purficott lacked was time. There were too many things to solve and deal with on her hands, making it difficult for her to completely calm down and study one thing.

And plastic is not something that Purficott wants immediately. She has too many more important things on her hands.

So until now, she has never tried to actually make a plastic product or rubber product.

After all, if you can't get rid of the plastic, then making a latex mattress is acceptable. This time, because she used two Philosopher's Stones, Purficott directly brought the mass of matter in front of her to the yellowing stage in one go, and after stabilizing it, she began to follow the same path as before her time travel. memories to shape it into a completely new compound.

If she remembered correctly, plastic was originally developed to replace natural resin, and its main purpose was to replace shellac, which was used as an insulating material at the time.

It just happened that she saw some rosin clots on some pine trees in the forest today, which gave her some new ideas, and the omniscient eye also provided her with new knowledge.

Finally, under the powerful power of alchemy, an air mattress in her memory finally appeared in front of Purficott.

"Air mattress made of plastic"

"Materials: Excellent (Rough)"

“Craftsmanship: Excellent”

"Effect: soft and comfortable, giving you a wonderful sleeping experience"

"Evaluation: Congratulations, you have created the first synthetic compound in this world, but its birth really makes people speechless, because you just wanted to make it comfortable for yourself to sleep."

"Analysis: Available theories related to synthetic resins and theories related to synthetic compounds"

Purficott declined to comment on Cuiyulu's evaluation. In her opinion, the birth of a new material itself comes from some kind of human desire. Only when demand is generated can technological progress be promoted.

If there is no market demand for something after it is developed and no one needs it, then it is garbage.

No matter how cool the function it can achieve, and it has unimaginable power, if no one needs such a thing, then it is garbage, worse than scrap metal.

Although the emergence of plastic was just because Purficott wanted to sleep more comfortably, the emergence of theories related to synthetic compounds can be said to have been of great help to Purficott.

Apart from anything else, with synthetic resin, it is much easier to study synthetic fibers.

And a freshly made air mattress also means that for Purficott, she can have a good sleep tonight comfortably.

Although this thing is not comparable to a serious comfortable mattress, it is definitely much more comfortable than lying directly on the ground, let alone something like leaves.

After re-laying the moisture-proof mat and bearskin, and putting the sleeping bag on top, Purficott got back into the sleeping bag and finally felt comfortable.

Although the air mattress itself is not very comfortable, and even the inflated mattress is not very soft, having such a mattress in the wild can indeed be described as very comfortable.

This made Purficott couldn't help but stretch out comfortably, then wrapped himself in a sleeping bag and rolled himself into a ball, getting ready to sleep.

Just before going to bed, her mind still ran through the new knowledge passed on to her by Cuiyulu, which made Purficott couldn't help but complain: "It seems that next time I will make something that can directly transfer knowledge from my mind." Exported equipment, otherwise I would have to find a way to record and organize new knowledge every time, which would be too cumbersome.”

(End of this chapter)