Teresa also graduated from her class, after which she will no longer be a teacher, but will devote herself to the work of the Ministry of Education.The next morning, in the north of the border town.The newly built chemistry laboratory covers a much larger area than the previous temporary laboratory, with a much larger interior space and basic experimental equipment.Entering the laboratory building, Owen met Newklian and the others, who were now official laboratory personnel, wearing experimental white coats and looking like scientific researchers.The lab coat can only be worn in the lab and must be taken off before leaving the lab, and they have developed a habit of doing so."
Your Lord."
Seeing Owen, Newchlyn and the others were ready to bow and say hello."
No need to be so polite."
Owen hurriedly stopped, "The chemistry experiment we are going to do today is very important, and I will do this experiment with you." ”"My lord, what material do you want to make today?"
Newching asked."
Mercury thunderate, an initiating agent with a high sensitivity to flames, pinprick and impact, is a very dangerous thing.In the process of production, your movements must be light, understand?
”"Understood."
Hearing this, everyone nodded cautiously.On the first day of their regularization, they had to carry out this dangerous chemical experiment, and they had to deal with it seriously.Next, Owen went to put on a white coat and went into the chemistry lab with Newke.Unrelated people like Marpel and Angelica couldn't come in, so they had to stand outside and guard the door."
Prepare the required experimental reagents first, there are concentrated nitric acid, ethanol, mercury ......," Owen instructed, "and the experimental equipment needs a thermometer, alcohol lamp, ......"
Newching and his party went separately to get the required experimental reagents and equipment, and put them all neatly on the experimental table.Purifying ethanol used to be one of the topics, and Nukelian and others purified and stored a lot of it in the laboratory.The thermometer was also made by Rob and was calibrated by Owen's data visualization function to show the temperature very accurately.Before the experiment began, Owen wrote down the reaction equation and the general preparation process on a blackboard, and then explained the principles of the chemical experiment to Newching."
Look here, mercury thunderate is mixed with mercury and ethanol in excess nitric acid, or mercury nitrate is used to react directly with ethanol to produce ......"
Because Owen attaches great importance to mercury thunderate, he has already done his homework, and the whole explanation process is very detailed.He then asked and answered a few questions, confirmed that everyone had figured out how to make mercury thunderate, and the experiment began.…… Eventually, a precipitate of the gray crystals was prepared in a test tube."
My lord, is this mercury thunderate?"
Staring at the contents of the test tube, Newklian lowered his voice and turned to Owen to ask.Owen took a closer look and replied, "It should be, the crude products of mercury thunderate are gray to dark brown crystals or powders, and the refined products are white and shiny needle-like crystals.We'll find out if we do some more testing. ”At Owen's instructions, Newching carefully removed some of the precipitate from the tube and subjected him to a series of tests.The characteristics are the same as those mentioned in the previous explanation, very sensitive and irritable, and it can be determined that the gray precipitate in the test tube is mercury thunderate."
Your Lord!"
After the test, Newklian couldn't help but clench his fists and excitedly said, "It's successful!"
We have successfully taken out the mercury rayate!
”In the previous subject experiment, Newching was also like this.Every time he takes out a new substance, he is very excited and happy."
Good."
Owen couldn't help but smile, "From today on, you will produce a large amount of mercury thunderate in the laboratory, and the storage method must be done according to what I said, otherwise it is easy to explode." ”"Understood, my lord."
The crowd responded.Until a military factory for the preparation of mercury thunderate was established, laboratories were temporarily relied upon to produce enough mercury thunderate.After the successful production, Owen did not leave the laboratory immediately, but stayed to watch Newching and them conduct the experiment again.After confirming that Newchlian had mastered the experiment of preparing mercury thunderate, Owen left the lab with peace of mind, ready to deal with something else.Now that the primer of the new bullet is already available, the smokeless propellant, that is, a mixture of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin, also needs to be prepared in large quantities.The backward black powder must be gradually replaced by it.Now, with the supply of trona from the two major chambers of commerce of Wodao and Crescent, a large amount of caustic soda can be produced by causticizing method, and the scale of nitrocellulose production can be expanded on the basis of the original.Glycerin is the ultimate by-product of soap factories and is produced in a constant stream of soap production.The large amount of concentrated nitric acid required to prepare nitroglycerin is not a problem, and the slime farm has begun to take shape under Rhona's management, producing enough concentrated nitric acid per day to supply the border town.Not long ago, Rona also went to the city hall to apply for new recruits and expand the scale of the farm, it should be that the strong acid slime has split again.In other words, the production of concentrated nitric acid will be further increased in the future, so there is no need to worry about it at all.In addition, there are high-power explosives, whether it is TNT or digesting starch, which requires concentrated nitric acid.If TNT cannot be made for the time being, then digestible starch will be made, and when the wheat is harvested this autumn, the part used for eating and brewing will be removed, and the rest will be used to prepare refined starch.Of course, new shells and explosives are available, and new weapons have to keep up.In fact, Owen has already asked Geeta to prototype a new musket, the bolt-action rifle, which is currently in the hands of Viscount Jarvis, waiting for a new bullet.The bolt-action rifle uses a firing pin type primer, which can greatly reduce the probability of bullet failure, and comes with a magazine that can load five bullets at a time to improve the firing speed.The new bullet will be clamped in advance with the magazine, and it can be pressed directly into the magazine when loading, which can significantly improve the loading efficiency.Once the new bullets are made and Viscount Jarvis is test-fired, Owen will order the military factory to start mass production of bolt-action rifles.The choice to manufacture bolt-action rifles, rather than automatic or semi-automatic rifles, is limited by the current volume of bullet production and technical processes.According to Winster, the ammunition consumption of automatic or semi-automatic rifles is extremely staggering, and it is better to equip the KPA with bolt-action rifles before the scale of ammunition production in Frontier Town has not yet increased.Otherwise, wouldn't it be embarrassing to run out of bullets in the middle of the battle?
As for the next generation of artillery, it is still being manufactured, and it should not be a problem to build four before the arrival of winter.With all aspects of weapons and equipment upgraded, there is no doubt that the KPA will have a much easier time dealing with undead monsters this winter.Although automatic or semi-automatic rifles are not chosen, if there are a few firearms that can fire bullets quickly and continuously, they can form a strong fire suppression on the battlefield and kill a large number of living targets at critical moments.Owen suddenly remembered a kind of firearm that Winster had mentioned—machine guns, the most famous of which seemed to be the Gatling machine gun.This is in line with the current needs of the border town, and it can make a few machine guns out of Geeta.Thinking of this, Owen hurriedly called Alpha in his mind.
[Alpha. 】[Is there anything you need Alpha to help with?]
】[Help me find the machine gun design drawings in the folder, and introduce the advantages and disadvantages of each machine gun by the way.] 】[Understand.] 】As soon as he finished speaking, many machine gun design drawings popped up in the center of Owen's vision.This lord is backed by a tech tycoon