Release that Witch Chapter 154: alchemy (below)
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Cam Schuire was completely dark when he returned home.
After dinner with his family, he returned to his study and wrote the recipe and materials of crystal glass into his book "The Door of alchemy", which recorded his journey from apprentice to chief alchemist. It also includes all alchemy formulas summarized by Scarlet Water City alchemical workshop over the years.
Cam believes that with this book, he will remain in history, and even after thousands of years, those alchemists will remember his name deeply.
Until the wax Candlelight seedling approaches the base, Cam puts down the quill pen and prepares to undress and sleep.
Suddenly, he remembered that there was still a letter from the prince that was not opened. He squinted and only the length of the fingernail candle was left. He decided to read the letter at the last time and reply envoy tomorrow. candle tail is only enough for him to write dozens of words, but it is enough to read a worthless letter.
Open the envelope. There are three sheets of thin paper in it. The first page is a common polite phrase to introduce your title and territory. Cam is too lazy to read and skips to the second page.
The content of the second page surprised him slightly. It was neither recruitment nor reprimand, but the strange five-element formula. If you look closely, each line consists of three sentences.
Oh, a little interesting, he smiled. Regardless of the purpose of the prince, at least he would be foolish.
He swept the first line.
saltpeter dry distillation produces nitric acid.
saltpeter ... retort ... acids are all alchemy terms. Wait, Cam suddenly felt in his heart. Isn't this one of the two-stone acid-making method in Alchemic Workshop?
The acid solution from saltpeter dry distillation must be collected in a special container. It looks the same as ordinary water vapor and it is difficult to attract attention. But its corrosiveness is very strong, not only can ablate the skin, it can even dissolve some metals.
This ... is actually a alchemy formula? Is it possible Border Town also has alchemist?
He quickly moved his eyes down one line
If the first sentence surprises him, the second sentence is incredible.
It consists of a bunch of inexplicable symbols, the symbols are juxtaposed together, and two equations are exhausted. Cam frowned, he had never seen such a weird symbol.
Further down, the third sentence seems to be an explanation of the second sentence, including the names and meanings of those symbols. To tell the truth, after reading it, he still couldn't figure it out. Those words that seemed to be mouthful seemed to be new words He needs to read it many times to associate the words with the symbols. However, the meaning of the whole sentence still leaves him confused.
At this moment, the flames of candle shook twice and went out.
Hell! Cam secretly cursed, took out a candle from the drawer without hesitation, and clicked it again.
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When the second candle burned to half, the chief alchemist's hand holding the letter was shaking slightly.
The stationery, which looks like nothing, took several times longer than normal reading.
The five elements on the second page of stationery are all alchemy formulas!
If that's the case, an outstanding alchemist master, with his personal strength, concluded that the five formulas are not unimaginable, but these five formulas, except for the first acid-making method, all echo each other. of. Some new words appear repeatedly, forming a seemingly balanced cycle.
The reaction of nitric acid and silver produces silver nitrate, water and nitric oxide.
Silver nitrate reacts with iron to form ferrous nitrate and silver.
Silver nitrate reacts with copper to form copper nitrate and silver.
Copper nitrate reacts with iron to form ferrous nitrate and copper.
He also did the alchemy reaction of placing silver rods in acid. Some silver rods were obviously dissolved by acid and disappeared invisible. This is the characteristic of acid and corrodes everything. It is credible to say that because silver nitrate is soluble in water, the surface seems to disappear. In fact, silver exists only in another form, not annihilation.
How is this possible?
No ... Cam shook his head. Obviously, the other party also expected his own ideas. These formulas did not coincide with each other. He realized that whether the other party gave himself a chance to verify, whether it was silver, iron or copper, it was common mineral. If alchemy is performed according to the following formula, the silver can be replaced again to prove that it is not annihilated but still exists in the acid solution.
Seeing the simultaneously formulas arranged on the paper, he felt that it was difficult for him to breathe. If these alchemy formulas can be established, his accumulated experience over the years, the efforts of peers, the "alchemy The Door is just a joke!
"You sleep with your child first, I'll go to alchemical workshop!"
Don't care about his wife's surprised look, Cam put on * jacket and rushed into the night.
Rushing to Alchemic Workshop, he immediately called three professional disciples and told him to conduct an alchemy test and let them light a torch and candle, the more the better. The order was quickly executed, and the long table belonging to him was brightly illuminated by the fire. The disciples shuttled between the material room warehouse and the refining room to prepare test materials for the chief alchemist.
saltpeter still has a lot of acid from dry distillation. Verification can start directly from the second line formula.
He took some acid and poured it into a glass, and then put a silver rod. As the reaction began, the rod body gradually corroded, accompanied by air bubbles.
While anxiously waiting, Cam unrolled the third page of stationery.
There is only a short sentence above: I just did a little work and want to know more answers, come to Border Town.
Damn, writing this sentence is equivalent to not writing it! If he can really verify what is said on the stationery, he is going to meet this unknown alchemist master. Otherwise, you will have trouble sleeping and eating in the days to come.
Until the bubbles stopped popping, he took out the broken silver rod and put a small piece of copper into the cup.
An unbelievable thing happened, a little white shift quickly appeared on the surface of the copper sheet, like a ladybug's carapace. The white spots became larger and larger, slowly covering the entire copper sheet, and the acid in the cup changed from colorless. It became blue.
Exactly as described in the letter!
The white precipitate is silver, and the newly formed substance copper nitrate is as soluble in water as silver nitrate, but its solution is blue.
Cam Schuire looked at the result in the cup and stood still.
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In the early morning of the next day, when James came to alchemical workshop, he was taken aback by the chief alchemist with dark circles under his eyes.
"Did you not sleep last night?" He was surprised, "For the second batch of crystal glass?"
Cam shook his head, pulled James to the long table, and asked wearily: "You were my most proud disciple. I would like to ask, what do you think of alchemy?"
"Uh ... as you taught me," he noticed that there were glasses on the table, and several of them were filled with solutions of different colors. One of them was sky blue, very attractive. Eye-catching. Could this be the reason why the Chief Adult did not sleep last night? Although James is full of confusion, I still honestly say answer, "I feel the same. The essence of alchemy is to find the truth of the world in disorder and chaos ..."
"No no no, James, I was wrong," Cam interrupted, "Everyone was wrong, alchemy is not the case."
Not so ...? James felt that the other party was a bit strange. First, alchemy, who had been up all night, now asked some inexplicable questions, but before he asked further, the chief has said to himself: "alchemy is more orderly than you and I think, even It can be said that it is stereotyped like the same plus one equals two. No matter how it changes, matter will not increase or disappear.
"Will not increase or disappear? What are you talking about? Ah? sifted and combined some common raw materials to generate incredible new things. Isn't this what alchemist often does!" He was puzzled.
"Yeah, I thought so, until Border Town's feudal lord wrote me a letter ..." Cam Schuire patted his shoulder, but the words spoken in his mouth shocked James, "I will soon Leaving here, go to Border Town to find the answer. Are you ... will I go with you? " Users please read.)