From Chief to Ball

"He even said that the only reason I did this is to prove that there is something transcendent and beyond the material. If this thing does not exist, or if it will prove to not exist in the future, then this kind of division is meaningless meaningful."

"However, I want to say that the word "possible" in his so-called "possibly meaningless" is the greatest meaning, because this is the foundation of the world and the point of view from which we understand the world."

"But, everyone, is there anything more meaningful than shaping the world view? His so-called meaningless is just a conceited belief that the world view he understands is correct, so what I say is meaningless. But if he Is it wrong? If there is such a thing as the essence of life, isn’t it going to completely change our view of the world? How can this be meaningless?”

"In his view, there are only matter and energy in the macroscopic world. In Min County, where his theory is popular, some people even think arrogantly that only enough energy is enough, and as long as the method is proper, the whole world can be created. What a kind of Arrogant mentality? People who see the world in this way will lack humanity and fear the whole world, and will plunge the world into amoral chaos."

"Then, since this is the case, please Mr. Chen let us see with our own eyes a kind of hope, a kind of hope that can bypass the insurmountable gap between life and non-life, even a little bit of hope."

"In that case, even if it can't prove that the essence of life may or may not exist, it at least proves that Mr. Chen's view of the world has a little basis... At least, it may not be wrong."

"But now, Mr. Chen can't prove that my statement is wrong. All he can do is to prove that his statement is correct and worthy of belief."

"Even if he teases like that, I'm invincible according to his theory. He can't prove that the essence of life doesn't exist, but I can easily find out the tasks that make him difficult-such as now Ask him to create a person out of inorganic matter, he will definitely not be able to create one."

"So, what Mr. Chen wants to prove now is not that I am wrong, but just try to prove that he may be right. This is the only thing that can be done, and it is also the only rational choice."

Facing this aggressive and sophistical reply, Chen Jian quickly gave a very simple reply.

Only two words.

"Ok."

Chapter 68 Three obscene pits

A simple reply means acceptance of the challenge, and also means the official start of a long tug-of-war.

"Science" in the narrow sense is not the only way to explain the world. Because of this, if more people agree that materialism and "science" in the narrow sense are the only right way to explain the world, it requires the cooperation of various disciplines. Gradually affect the next generation over a long period of time, so that they agree that "science" is the right way.

Even though Chen Jian tried his best to create a public opinion environment in which the distinction between organic and inorganic is meaningless, breaking through the boundary between organic and inorganic is a shortcut to make materialism more popular among the people. The importance of this matter is in line with the theory of evolution in the long run , is far more far-reaching than the various social changes that are taking place in Min County at this time.

Chen Jian is qualified to use the words "regardless of cost" at this time, but even if the cost is not considered, it must meet the current technical level, which is still very difficult.

The methods he can think of are all the things he learned in the 12 years of primary and secondary education in his previous life, because those things that he went to school at this time are not available to the technical level at this time, and what he can do now is to combine the nine-year compulsory education and the three-year education. Integrating all the knowledge learned in the nine-year high school education, relying on the elementary chemistry level of the nine-year compulsory education stage to complete an extremely long and complicated experiment.

The so-called synthesis is nothing but the process of re-aggregation of particles under the action of energy.Just like the violent aesthetic endorsement, as long as the power is sufficient, the sewing machine can also go to the sky; as long as the energy is sufficient and the method is appropriate, five loaves and two fishes are not delusional.

Relying on the current level of technology, it is impossible to directly apply energy to the chemical bonds of organic matter.High-temperature and high-pressure catalysts cannot meet any of these three conditions, so the synthesis methods that sound the simplest are actually the most difficult.

Therefore, an intermediate product must be needed, and huge energy is stored on this intermediate product, and then this intermediate product is used to do various reactions, thus crossing the road between inorganic and organic. The insurmountable gap under the condition that the level is not enough.

Making the simple method complicated has become the only method available at this time.

After thinking about it, the simplest organic compound synthesis that is possible at this time is nothing more than those few.

The definition of organic matter at this time is not the definition of organic matter that Chen Jian is familiar with, so the other party may not recognize the three types of enynane, so it is necessary to jump out of this range.

In the previous debate, Chen Jian used a method to classify things like alcohol and acetic acid as organic substances, and the other party acquiesced in the public reply, so this was a breakthrough.

After careful consideration, there are still quite a few things that can be produced under the current conditions regardless of cost, and that jump out of the three things of enynene.

Urea, acetic acid, acetonitrile and nitrile by-products, trichloroacetic acid, trichloroacetic acid, acetaldehyde, trichloroacetate that can be disguised as menthol oil, and many others.

These seemingly complicated things can be made under the current conditions regardless of the cost, and can be made with the most primitive, simple, common and common things.

It’s just that there is a hurdle that cannot be jumped out of all of these. All the first steps must be the simplest compound that stores a large amount of energy, and all subsequent reactions must be carried out by relying on this compound.

This compound is calcium carbide, which is calcium carbide in so-called gas lamps that can produce acetylene when it meets water.

With this thing, it is possible to use the most primitive method to synthesize cyanide, thereby using the most basic raw materials to replicate the way to synthesize urea, and to prevent the opponent from finding any loopholes.

With this thing, acetylene can be produced when it meets water, acetonitrile can be produced by using acetaldehyde and ammonia gas under the laboratory conditions at this time, and acetic acid can be produced by alkaline hydrolysis of acetonitrile. This is a feasible and simple method.

With this thing, you can produce acetylene when it meets water, and the reaction between acetylene and bromine water can produce methyl bromide, and then react with soda ash to form acetaldehyde.Acetaldehyde has a special fruity aroma after dilution, plus it can undergo a silver mirror reaction, which is used to deceive those people into thinking that it is a pre-product of the synthesis of maltose, which looks more organic.

His mirror-making workshop has been using sugar all the time, and now the aldehyde group of the silver mirror reaction that people have discovered is basically sugar, so in the eyes of those people, there is an indescribable connection between aldehyde and sugar, and the other side of sugar is always different. Might not admit it's not organic.

Although the aldehydes produced are far away from sugar, a silver mirror reaction is enough to make some people believe that this thing is inextricably linked to sugar.

Other than that, there are a lot of actionable things, blah blah blah.

It can be said that as long as calcium carbide is produced, many things can be manipulated, but it is a bit difficult to produce calcium carbide.

In fact, before the direct method of ammonia synthesis, the only ammonia synthesis industry in the world was completed by calcium carbide, and it became the basis of the ammonia synthesis and explosives industry in countries other than Germany before the outbreak of World War I.This is the first attempt for human beings to try to make their own fertilizer to feed more people and replace the depleted Chilean saltpetre, but it was not recorded in the history because of the high cost.

From his fate of being eliminated, we can know that this is a bottomless pit of energy consumption. Energy means cost and technical difficulty at this time.

The raw materials for synthesizing calcium carbide are very simple, and now there are enough raw materials, nothing more than limestone and coke.

But the difficulty is not the raw materials, but how to pack huge energy into calcium carbide, or how to generate such extremely high temperatures.

Even in the presence of a catalyst, this reaction is a super-endothermic reaction, otherwise it would be impossible to have so much energy as an intermediate product for the next step of synthesis, and a high temperature of about [-] degrees is required.

Regardless of the cost, it is not impossible to achieve this temperature under laboratory conditions with the current technical level.After all, what Chen Jian wanted was calcium carbide, not pure calcium carbide, and impurities would not affect the next reaction.

In this way, Chen Jian decided to use an almost super-expensive method to produce a small number of samples, just to prove what he wanted to prove.

If you want to generate heat that can produce a small amount of impure calcium carbide under simple conditions, you can use the thermite method to provide the heat source. The high temperature of about [-] degrees can completely meet the conditions for producing a small amount of calcium carbide. This is also a legal method for producing cyanide, The first step towards a viable approach to compounding.

Aluminum was an extremely expensive metal at the beginning of its appearance, and it was more expensive than platinum, and the person with the most expensive lineage also had an aluminum cup as a family heirloom—provided that Siemens hadn’t produced an excitation DC generator, and a large amount of electricity needed to rely on batteries method to provide, even need to replace with potassium or sodium.

Under the conditions at this time, the aluminum that is more expensive than gold can be produced legally in the laboratory, or the oxide that can be used can be produced in the laboratory as one of the materials of thermite. It is not impossible to spend a lot of money.

If aluminum is the precondition for obtaining calcium carbide under the current conditions in the laboratory, then there are many preconditions for the production of aluminum, and it is likely to kill people.

Relying on direct current, a mixture of molten cryolite and alumina can be electrolyzed to produce a small amount of aluminum in batches.

Alumina is easy to say, after finding the raw material, use soda ash to dissolve the alumina to produce water-soluble sodium metaaluminate. Soda ash Chen Jian has already built a preliminary workshop, and the quantity is sufficient.

The soda ash-dissolved alumina is filtered to remove the remaining insoluble impurities in soda ash, and the remaining sodium metaaluminate solution is blown into carbon dioxide—this is also available under the conditions at this time—so as to generate precipitated aluminum hydroxide.

After the aluminum hydroxide is filtered out, it is washed again, pickled again and filtered twice, and the aluminum hydroxide is calcined at a high temperature to form pure aluminum oxide according to the standards at this time.

This is the raw material of electrolytic aluminum, basically there is no technical bottleneck, as long as the specifications are set regardless of cost, there is no problem.

However, the melting point of alumina is too high, and electrolytic alumina must be in a molten state, which requires the use of cryolite to dissolve alumina, thereby reducing the temperature required for the reaction.

Cryolite is sodium hexafluoroaluminate. In fact, there is a finished ore of this mineral, but it is not here, and it has not been found at this time, so it needs to be prepared separately.

Since it is sodium hexafluoroaluminate, with the word fluorine, it is inevitable that people will die during the production process under the current conditions.

If you want to synthesize, it is now feasible.

First of all, Chen Jian and Mr. Mu Lao published research on the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers needed by plants, and the simple sulfuric acid workshop he built in Mincheng can produce sulfuric acid.Before, a certain brother of mine died of hydrogen fluoride poisoning in order to try to use apatite and concentrated sulfuric acid to produce phosphate fertilizer instead of struvite. Therefore, it is possible to produce hydrogen fluoride by producing volatile acid from non-volatile acid.

To collect hydrogen fluoride, you can use lead vessels or the most primitive and simple wax vessels.

Cryolite can be produced by reacting the collected hydrogen fluoride with sodium metaaluminate that has previously been purified to a certain extent. The whole process is now basically costing lives.