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Chapter 42 – Tungsten carbide alloy

Wang Lei was holding a bag of reaction squeeze and catalyst, and behind him was a robot holding a large tungsten alloy brick.

Came to the small smelting factory in the southwest corner.

Wang Lei opened the door of the smelting factory. There was no one empty in the factory, and the blast furnace was also cold.

Seeing this, Wang Lei could only put down the bag in his hand and began to study how to start the blast furnace, but after studying for a long time, he didn’t find out why.

In desperation, Wang Lei had to call out Nuo Wanting, “Do you know how to start this blast furnace?”

Nuo Wanting looked at this small blast furnace and frowned, “Wait, let me see if there is any information about this blast furnace in the database.” After about half a minute, Nuo Wanting looked at Wang Lei,” I found it. This is a small experimental blast furnace, and there is a manual in the construction materials.”

So under the guidance of Nuo Wanting, Wang Lei stumbled and started the blast furnace. Wang Lei asked the robot to put the tungsten alloy in, and then took a little reaction from the bag and squeezed it in.

After putting it in, Wang Lei began to heat the blast furnace until it reached 3300°C, which was exactly the temperature at which the tungsten alloy was about to melt.

Wang Lei stopped heating and kept the temperature at 3300°C, and then asked the robot to add a catalyst to it, and the catalyst contained a thumb-sized piece of high-purity graphite.

After adding the catalyst, the temperature is increased to 3340°C. At this temperature, the tungsten alloy will slowly fuse with graphite under the action of the catalyst.

The carbon atoms in graphite will be completely decomposed, and then integrated into the atomic structure of the tungsten alloy, filling the gaps between atoms, thereby increasing the hardness and density of the metal.

After maintaining a temperature of 3340°C for two hours, Wang Lei raised the temperature of the blast furnace directly to 3600°C. At this temperature, the tungsten alloy will be completely liquefied and become a liquid, which can better bond with carbon atoms.

After nearly an hour at a temperature of 3600°C, Wang Lei stopped heating and was about to pour the hot high-carbide tungsten alloy solution into the mold.

Following Wang Lei’s operation, the blast furnace slowly moved to the top of the mold, and the outlet of the blast furnace was aligned with the hole above the mold. As the blast furnace slowly tilted, a dark red metallic liquid that looked like mercury poured into the mold. .

The next step is to wait for the cooling of the high-carbon tungsten composite financial fluid.

At this time, Qin Hongzhi and Academician Qin opened the door of the smelting factory and walked in.

As soon as he opened the door, Academician Qin noticed that someone had just used a blast furnace, because when he opened the factory door, Academician Qin felt a heat wave on his face, which formed a sharp contrast with the 2,3°C weather outside.

With curiosity, Academician Qin walking towards the blast furnace, after passing a small corner, saw Wang Lei who was squatting on a mold and looking curiously.

Seeing Wang Lei, Academician Qin couldn’t help but feel excited, and immediately came to Wang Lei’s side, “Xiao Lei, you are here too!” Academician Qin greeted embarrassingly.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

Hearing the voice, Wang Lei looked back and found that it was Qin Hongzhi, Academician Qin, “Yes, Academician Qin, let me borrow the blast furnace here and practice something.”

“Oh! What did you practice?” Academician Qin asked curiously.

“High-carb tungsten alloy.” Wang Lei said.

Hearing this term, Academician Qin couldn’t help but his eyes lit up, “Then have you succeeded?”

Wang Lei pointed to the mold in front of him and looked at Academician Qin, “I don’t know yet, I have to wait for it to cool down completely before disassembling it.”

Academician Qin looked at the mold shot in front of Wang Lei and asked curiously, “What are you going to do, you need to make so many things, and they are all tungsten carbide alloys?”

“It’s nothing, just a set of lightweight personal power exoskeleton.” Wang Lei said calmly.

Hearing that Wang Lei actually wanted to make an exoskeleton, Academician Qin couldn’t help but his heart moved. After hesitating for a while, Academician Qin cautiously asked, “Can I watch it beside me?”

Upon hearing Academician Qin’s request, Wang Lei looked at Academician Qin in surprise, while Academician Qin looked forward to it.

Looking at Academician Qin’s eyes, Wang Lei thought for a while and said, “Yes!”

Seeing Wang Lei agreed, Academician Qin was overjoyed, and finally learned about the design of the movable joints of Wang Lei’s robot. Although the movable joints of the robot and the exoskeleton are different, the general principle can still be drawn from some details. The movable joints of the exoskeleton are more advanced than the robot, and there will be more things to learn from.

So Wang Lei had one more attendant behind him. Wherever Wang Lei went, he followed him, for fear of missing something important.

After confirming that there were no bubbles or other things in the tungsten carbide alloy liquid in the mold, Wang Lei returned to the laboratory and found a large piece of high-purity graphite and some catalysts from the material.

Wang Lei wants to use the mold to cool down the graphene first.

So Wang Lei and Academician Qin came to the laboratory specializing in the preparation of graphene.

When I came to the laboratory, several people were already using the equipment, but fortunately, there was more than one equipment for preparing graphene.

The researcher door in the laboratory, seeing Academician Qin coming, greeted him enthusiastically, but Academician Qin dealt with it a few times casually, focusing on Wang Lei’s body all the time.

Wang Lei puts the piece of high-purity graphite in his hand into a powder in a grinder, and then freezes it with liquid nitrogen.

Put in liquid nitrogen for 20 minutes. During these 20 minutes, Wang Lei mixed various catalysts in a certain proportion, and then heated it with an alcohol lamp.

Then spread the processed catalyst to the inside of the graphene preparation instrument.

After 20 minutes, Wang Lei poured the white smoked graphite powder into the material storage box of the instrument.

Then Wang Lei pressed the start button of the machine.

In an instant, the entire machine was filled with white cold air. After a while, a thin layer of water mist appeared on the inner wall of the machine.

The mist began to spread slowly, spreading around, until it became a very thin transparent material.

Wang Lei stopped the machine, turned it on, removed a piece of transparent material from the inner wall of the machine, held it in his hand and bent it, Wang Lei bent it to 90 degrees, and the transparent material did not show any signs of fracture.

Seeing this, Wang Lei showed a happy smile.

At this time, Academician Qin behind him was very surprised and said, “This! Is this graphene?”

Wang Lei took the piece of transparent graphene while looking at it, and said, “It’s not completely certain yet. You have to do some comprehensive testing to find out.”

“Check it out, then!” From Academician Qin’s tone, Wang Lei heard a trace of anxiety and expectation.

So Wang Lei came to a tensile testing machine, and after fixing the transparent graphene on the machine, Wang Lei started the machine.