The bad emperor of Tang Dynasty

The day after the invention of glycerin, Guo Nuan quickly transferred the professional salvage team set up in the yamen from Jingzhao Mansion.Speaking of the team leader, Guo Nuan was recruited from the talent recruitment fair when Guo Nuan first took office, the Tubo man who can dive.

Tubo people are nicknamed Blowing Sheepskin. This guy has a large lung capacity. It is said that he can easily blow up the airbags used to make sheepskin rafts. Guo Nuan reckons this is modesty.

"Blowing sheepskin, are you sure you will lead your dozen salvage team members to dive to the bottom of the lake?"

Guo Nuan looked at the green and deep [-]-acre lake in front of him, rippling in the morning wind. Under the cover of the empty and green mountains, it looked extremely beautiful and peaceful in the morning mist. There were five or six small boats full of people swimming in the wide waters of the lake. , he immediately asked the blowjob around him.

"Reporting to my lord, the boys are all ready. There are boats on the lake to meet them, and there are tens of feet of hemp rope to trap the diver's waist. If there is an accident, they can be pulled up immediately." Then he blew the sheepskin Answer with confidence.

"Uh, be careful, let's get into the water."

Immediately with an order, seven or eight divers took the fins invented by Guo Nuan for them, diving snorkels, glass masks and other equipment, as well as a square box containing diatomaceous earth.

Guo Nuan studied geography and learned that diatom ore soils are generally distributed in Northeast China and North China. Now Guo Nuan is in a hurry to develop high explosives, so he has no time to send people to Liaodong in the north to fetch the ore soil. It will take at least two months to ride the fast horse at the post station, which will delay the progress of digging the canal.

However, diatomaceous earth is also distributed at the bottom of the lake and the seabed. It is a siliceous rock formed by mixing the dead algae in the water with the soil. Guo Nuan plans to directly use his salvage team to dig a large amount of diatom soil in the lake and dry the soil. Finally, it is mixed with charcoal powder and sawdust, and then used to absorb nitroglycerin to make a safe and reliable solid explosive. This is the last and most critical step. Once successful, it means that the overall construction of TNT explosive is successful. The problem of making explosive detonators would be much easier.

After three days of salvage operations, a total of about [-] jin of diatomite was excavated from the lake, which was then dried and ground into powder by a stove.

Regarding the mixing ratio of glycerin, sulfuric acid, and nitric acid, Guo Nuan is also different, so Guo Nuan and Abu had to try to mix them in small quantities.

It took another five days to finally figure out the ratio of sulfuric acid to nitric acid, which is about three to one.After heating with nitrated mixed acid, Guo Nuan took out the oily liquid and washed it with distilled water, stirring and tossing all afternoon.

"Pale yellow solid precipitation!" Just as Abu was exhausted refining the flask all afternoon, he suddenly yelled, and then excitedly pointed at the yellow solid substance at the bottom of the flask.

"Hey, this is solid explosive." Guo Nuan dried a small yellow object and smiled.

Soon, the two refined nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and glycerin through different procedures overnight, and obtained a yellow oily liquid.

Guo Nuan carefully stared at the half-test tube of yellow-orange-orange nitroglycerin in his hand, not daring to whisper to Abu next to him, "This thing is very dangerous, even a slight vibration can cause it to explode violently. It's a bomb."

The two cautiously put the nitroglycerin in a safe glass container, and Guo Nuan hurriedly took out a mixture of diatomaceous earth, sawdust, and charcoal to absorb three parts of the nitroglycerin liquid.

"Old Guo, are you sure it's successful now?"

"Of course, this is a safe solid high explosive."

Immediately, without warning, Guo Nuan threw a small group of solid explosives made of diatomaceous earth and nitroglycerin into the furnace, and Abu was so frightened that he fell down immediately. Guo Nuan had already been deeply impressed by Guo Nuan's words about the terrifying power of the explosives. on his mind again.

But after waiting for half a quarter of an hour, Abu, who was lying on the floor holding his head, waited for a long time, but the solid explosives in the furnace were fine, and there was no movement at all.

After getting up, Abu was drenched in cold sweat from the fright, let out a long breath, and said leisurely, "Why, the explosives didn't work? Did it fail?"

"Haha, of course it succeeded. No matter how you can throw it or kick it now, after absorbing it with diatomaceous earth, it will be fine even if it is baked in a strong fire. Otherwise, how can it be called a safe solid high explosive?" Nuan suddenly put his hips on his hips and laughed.

"Since the fire can't burn solid explosives, how to ignite it?" The clever Abu immediately raised his own doubts.

"Abu, haven't you always been researching how to use those poisonous mercury and some weird cheap metals to make gold, and now the mercury you refined can come in handy." Guo Nuan explained the detonation with confidence. key.

Therefore, Guo Nuan dissolved mercury into nitric acid liquid to extract crude turmercure, which was washed and purified to obtain high-purity turmercury.

"Well, add ethanol, which is spirits, and acid."

Guo Nuan spent a lot of effort, and under the amazed and adoring eyes of Abu, a knowledgeable alchemist, he finally finished the extraction of mercury fulminate calmly.

"Well, make a detonator from mercury fulminate, ignite the detonator with a live wire, and then trigger the explosion of solid explosives. Hehe, this is TNT explosives! It's extremely powerful. When it explodes, don't be scared, Abu. Gotta pee my pants!"

Guo Nuan stared at the mercury, and smiled nervously. Hearing what he said, Abu was terrified and shivered all over.

With the detonator and solid explosives for detonation, Guo Nuan and Abu spent a day and a night without eating or drinking to make a package of explosives tightly wrapped in yellow paper.

"Well, this one should weigh five kilograms, quack, it's definitely a big killer."

Guo Nuan was so cool that he held the dynamite bag in one hand, held it high above his head, and stood standing by the lakeside where the water shimmered under the moonlight. Then he posed a pose, as mighty as a revolutionary martyr Dong Cunrui reborn.

"Bring the torch!" At this moment, the night was quiet, and there were only Guo Nuan and Abu in the laboratory by the lakeside of the mountains in the outskirts. Then Guo Nuan shouted to Abu next to him with a solemn expression.

When he took the torch and was about to light the fuse, Abu was a little nervous, and asked Guo Nuan in a trembling voice: "Old Guo, how powerful is this big guy?"

Guo Nuan tilted her head, thinking carefully about this really thought-provoking question, and after a few seconds, she replied:

"Uh, I remember deeply that my very clever and wretched middle school chemistry teacher once scratched his bald head and said that ten catties of TNT explosives can blow up a [-]-square-meter tile-roofed house to pieces Yes, er, one hundred catties, he said that it can probably razed our five-story reinforced concrete teaching building to the ground."

"Well, there's five catties of explosives here, and it's probably enough to blow up half a hut." Guo Nuan said a lot of words about the teaching building, the middle school chemistry teacher, etc., which made Abu, an ancient man, stunned for a while. Yes, but Abu can generally imagine that the power of the explosive pack in Guo Nuan's hands should be quite powerful, but Guo Nuan is not sure.

"One, two, three, light the fire, drop the bomb!"

Immediately, Guo Nuan quickly lit the fuze with a torch, treated the five-pound explosive pack like a rugby ball, and threw it into the lake with all his strength, and the two quickly lay down on the lakeside. .

"Boom!" There was a loud noise, and then a giant column of waves more than [-] meters high was set off. If there was a loud thunderbolt in the sky, it shocked the night sky, the quiet valley shook, and the echo spread ten miles away. interest.

A burst of waves splashed down from the sky, like a downpour of airborne rain, immediately soaked Guo Nuan and Abu by the lake, and also dropped a few dead grass carp on Guo Nuan's head, causing Guo Nuan the pain Push up your ass.

"Grandma, it turns out that the middle school teacher was talking nonsense and was misled by him. The power of five catties of TNT explosives is really powerful!" Someone stood up and watched the dozens of acres of water in the lake being blown up by the explosives. Ha ha laughed.