From Chief to Ball

Hearing such a statement, someone finally became angry and reprimanded, but then the middle-aged man said: "But according to the absolutely perfect experiment put forward by that young man, we conclude that the experiment itself is wrong. .What we electrolyze is brine... not just salt. From the point of view of an absolute perfect experiment, we are indeed wrong."

"If we agree with what he said about inductive deduction and experimental methods, we have to admit that the basis of some of the facts we have arrived at is itself wrong."

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This kind of debate has continued since the shock, until finally, someone finally made a decision: "Speaking of which, this young man's first article on induction, deduction and experimentation is excellent, and this is not only useful for our subjects. In practice, many disciplines can be used.”

"This article is definitely worth publishing. Even if it is the first article in the first volume of the New Year, there is absolutely no problem. I don't think everyone has any objection to this point."

"But the rest... are all inferences. Many inferences sound reasonable and can even perfectly explain some things, but they are all inferences or guesses after all."

"Guessing is possible and allowed. It's just that guessing should be taken so seriously?"

"My personal opinion is to go through all the articles of this young man. But first publish his first article on inductive deduction and experimentation, and the rest... the rest are only speculations after all, which can be placed in the booklet every month The last one is sent out, and it must be marked as a speculation."

"As for the discovery of a new indivisible substance called phosphorus and the fact that bones contain phosphorus and calcium are also very important, it can be ranked as the first article in a later issue."

"Even so, this is a great honor for a young man, and it can be regarded as an explanation to Lao Mu."

After a lot of discussion, everyone accepted the final proposal.

Chapter 37 Famous

The specific content of this proposal was told to Mr. Mu Lao exactly after that disciple of Mr. Mu said that all of Chen Jian's articles had been approved.

It wasn't perfect, but it was enough to get those people in Mr. Mu's room excited.

A young man who was unknown before can have two articles published in the first place, even if the rest of the speculation is only placed at the end of the booklet, it is shocking enough.

The young man who caused such a shock is the master's junior disciple, his own junior junior brother, which is a big event worth celebrating no matter how you look at it.

After the celebration, the disciples finally asked some long overdue questions.

"Sir, do you think the conjectures made by the younger brother are true?"

Mr. Mu smiled back and asked, "What do you think?"

"I feel like it's true. Although it feels like this kind of thing is often on the other side of the truth, the world should have rules in it. The guess of the younger brother is a rule that can be perfectly explained."

The old man chuckled, the voice that had been hurt by the acid smoke mixed with the hoarseness that the old man should have had mixed into a sound that sounded like a bellows being pulled.

"You little junior brother, guessing all this is not based on feeling."

He raised a piece of paper, which he had read long ago but hadn't shown to his disciples. After speaking, he passed the paper to the disciples.

It says "Gifts to my trusting husbands and brothers and sisters", but that's only half of the title, the other half is "Ask for help from my trusting husbands and brothers and sisters".

There is only one piece of paper, and the same thing is written, but with a different title.

After everyone saw it, they couldn't help showing surprise on their faces.

Li Yun is a trustworthy person, especially when it comes to his husband, so he brought these papers back from Mincheng, but this is the first time he has seen the contents.

Because he was the only one in the group who had met Chen Jian and who had said many good things to Chen Jian, so after reading this piece of paper, Li Yun made a sound first.

"Sir... the younger brother means... wants to use an experiment to prove his conjecture? But this... can it be done?"

Mr. Mu smiled and said: "So, he is asking for your help. But again, if it succeeds, this glory belongs to you brothers and sisters. Since it is said about trust, then of course I, as a gentleman, must trust This disciple, besides, what you ask us to do is not too difficult."

"Your junior brother probably guessed that his conjectures would not be accepted by others, and knew that more experiments were needed to prove the conclusions he reached through those conjectures, so he begged us to do such a thing. The only bad thing It’s just that I’m afraid you will follow me to do this experiment this New Year…”

The disciples recalled the content on the paper, and said with some enthusiasm: "If the little brother's guess is true, then what if this New Year is over? He said that salt is actually chlorine and a new The reason why this metal has not been discovered is because the metal is too strong... If it is true, it can prove that some of the younger brother's inferences are not only correct, but also beneficial to us. Indeed, we have discovered a new metal, a new indivisible."

These disciples were too aware of the kind of fame that would be if they discovered such a metal that sounded extremely magical, and they knew that this would completely change some of the previous conclusions that were considered to be facts.

Obviously, this little junior brother is very good at doing things, and he gave this fame to people like himself, whether it is true or not, it is enough to make them as full of affection as Li Yun.

Mr. Mu saw the excited expressions of his disciples, and said with a smile: "If you can succeed, these fames are all yours, and I don't need them anymore. What I want is to understand what we have learned before I die. There is really a kind of rule in it, and that’s enough. You are still young, and all that I, my husband, left you with is danger and a reputation for being fast, and now it’s time to leave you something.”

"Well, get ready. If it works, it's the beginning of the best new year or the end of the best old year."

The disciples agreed and started preparing according to what was said on the paper.

According to the paper, using a stack to electrolyze salt water means that two things are electrolyzed.The composition of water and salt is not the same, and it is speculated that the extremely positive metal will directly react with water, so that metal cannot be obtained.

And if the salt water is not electrolyzed, but the salt is heated and melted and then electrolyzed, then the new metal should be obtained.

But the temperature required to melt salt after heating is very high, so you can use something like a mixture to lower the melting point to make the salt melt faster.It's just that this kind of thing must have a certain similarity with salt, especially the negative substance must be the same, otherwise it will be difficult to be convincing, so you can choose quicklime treated with hydrochloric acid.

If, after molten electrolysis, chlorine gas comes out at one end and a metal appears at the other end, then the metal is either the metal in the molecules of table salt, the metal in the molecules of chlorinated quicklime, or a mixture of the two metals ——This can be deduced inversely after the reaction of the generated metal and chlorine gas.

This experiment seems to have no problem, and it is logically reasonable. In fact, as long as you get a new metal, you can prove everything: if you want to prove whether this metal is the one in salt or the one in lime, you just have to All it takes is a little experimentation.

Even if this experiment is not used, it is enough to change a lot of things just by producing the metal that can be deduced.

The people in the room have been convinced by the design of this experiment. They never thought that they could also electrolyze the molten salt, and the most previous idea was to electrolyze the solution of caustic soda.

In two days, various preparations have been completed.Purified table salt, recondensed water after distillation, purified calcium chloride after removing impurities by adding hydrochloric acid and then introducing carbon dioxide gas, then adding hydrochloric acid, electrolytic electrodes, beeswax, utensils, heating utensils...

A mixture of table salt and calcium chloride is being heated, and relatively expensive stacks are ready.

What was filled in the container as a contrast was relatively pure table salt and calcium chloride. When the solids in these two containers were not liquefied, the mixture of table salt and calcium chloride in the electrolytic container had begun to melt.

This made Mr. Mu and his disciples a little excited. The temperature didn't seem to be high. It seemed that this method was indeed feasible.If the salt is directly heated, it seems that a higher temperature may be required.

When the mixture began to melt, the electric pile was switched on, and all eyes were on the hot and dangerous container.

Knowing that there may be toxic chlorine gas, these people are not afraid. Looking at the melting salt, they feel that they may witness a miracle today...

The temperature gradually stabilized, and bubbles began to appear on the electrodes inserted into the molten salt solution.According to speculation, the density of this molten metal is less than that of molten salt liquid, and the temperature is very high, so it may be released in the form of gas, and even if it is formed, it will float on the molten liquid.

From time to time, some splashes of high-temperature liquid flew out of the container, and the person who was burned just ouched softly, and rubbed the burned place casually with his hand, but his eyes were fixed on the place where the bubbles were generated .

There are two sets of devices for electrolysis. One set does not perform any collecting action, just visual observation, while the other set uses a porcelain tube that does not change at this temperature as a collector.

The porcelain tube inserted into it to collect the gas is not transparent glass, so you can't see what's happening inside, so you can only see the bubbles constantly bubbling below, but you don't know what weird things will be collected in the porcelain tube.

On the other side for visual observation, someone has already expressed admiration...

"have a look!"

A man stretched out his hand, pointed at the occasional spatter of molten liquid, and yelled loudly.

Above the molten liquid, at one end of the electrode, there appeared some extremely small particles of molten metal that shone with metallic luster, like mercury beads.

It can be seen carefully with the naked eye that after these small particles float to the top of the molten liquid, once they come into contact with the air, they quickly lose their metallic luster and turn into a light gray instead.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on those small metal beads, and one person couldn't help but said: "Young brother's guess is right! It is really a kind of metal that has never been seen before, and it has the same luster as mercury!"