The Rus tribe has never been able to get any excellent writing materials, so some of the tribe's "intellectuals" had to carve words on wooden boards to record some things.
For the most ordinary families, they do not need to record any important things in the form of engraving.
Rurik held a small carving knife from the Iron Construction Company in his hand. It was made of wrought iron, showing the quenching and hardening process. He faced a larger wooden board with a rough surface, and couldn't help but wonder whether even such a board could be used.
Portray your own knowledge well?
"What are you going to do? If you are going to carve, you can give me the job." Klavasen suggested kindly.
"Help me carve? I need to make some marks first, and then you can help me dig deeper, and finally apply a little ink."
"Are you determined to do it tonight? Maybe you can wait until tomorrow to continue."
Klavason had great doubts about the child's energy. His own condition was a little bad, and a yawn showed his fatigue.
Rurik shook his head: "Like a piece of red-hot iron, we must strike while the iron is hot. I have nothing else to do except sleep. I will just work hard tonight. I will do my best to bring the Odin I know
Those creations are marked for you.”
Rurik's decision was of course welcomed by the two blacksmiths, and Klavasen did not complain any more.
"Just keep doing it, we will accompany you, and let us know if you are hungry. I just hope you will be careful and don't get cut on your hand by the carving knife."
"Don't worry, make sure the oil lamp is bright and the stove is burning."
Let's talk, Rurik sat cross-legged, with the big wooden board placed on his legs, and began to use the tip of the knife to use gentle force to draw extremely long marks on the wooden board.
At first, Klavason didn't take it seriously, but soon he realized that Rurik was making a grid.
Rurik's intention was actually very simple, which was to use his memory to reproduce the periodic table of elements as closely as possible in the ninth century AD.
In any case, the "Periodic Table of Elements" is indeed pre-excessive knowledge. As the Ross tribe has not yet escaped from ignorance, can they have any in-depth understanding?
How can it be!
Even students a thousand years later started to come into contact with the "Periodic Table of Elements" around the age of fourteen. If they want to have a preliminary understanding of its mysteries, the students are almost eighteen years old.
If students in a thousand years are still like this, the illiterate people in this time and space cannot instill too much into them, otherwise it will be counterproductive.
Rurik drew a large number of grids, which have eighteen grids from left to right.
At the top corner of the grid, he used the tip of a knife to mark the word "h", and then carefully used runes below to spell out the word "at". The expression of the first grid was really concise and concise, and was marked as
The element of "h" is the smallest element. He then marked the number 1 in rune on the right side of "h", which means that it only consists of one "at".
Clear marks were drawn on the oak board. When he completed a grid, Klavasen and Kawei were still completely puzzled. This confusion also spread to the subsequent grids.
For example, the second grid carved by Rurik is actually on the far right side of the board!
Rurik marked it with "he". There is no other meaning. The element is "helium". It's just that due to the knowledge level of ancient people, no one understood that there are many trace amounts of inert gases in the air, let alone
Ability to separate it.
In fact, in the context of real scientific development, the discovery of helium is quite legendary, and the era of its discovery was also the industrial age.
Rurik did not have any annotation on element No. 2, and only gave it a number of "No. 2" in rune script.
From No. 3 to No. 5, Rurik used Roman letters to mark the names of these elements. For these scientific records, runes are not as disseminative and popular as Roman letters.
In fact, Rurik wanted to explain the boron in "No. 5". After all, the boron element has very good uses in industrial manufacturing. After much deliberation, he decided to forget it. He estimated that Klavasen could not come from the mountainous area.
It was easy to find boron ore in it. Rurik knew that he was better at mechanical things, and other aspects of knowledge would only be at the basic level of ordinary college students a thousand years later.
Of course, more than a thousand years later, the knowledge of any junior high school student will completely surpass that of the so-called wise men in Western Europe in the ninth century.
When things reached Element No. 6, everything became different.
The two blacksmiths saw this and finally hoped to come to Rurikki with a new annotation on No. 6.
The annotation is very simple, "forming a piece of charcoal", and the annotations are all written in rune script.
Regarding the explanation of the carbon element, Rurik used analogies and gestures with mines and charcoal, barely making the two blacksmiths understand that there is such a "basic element".
For element No. 7, Rurik drew an h as usual, but he put some thought into the label and wrote "breathable plain air".
"What kind of gas is this? It doesn't have any smell?" Klavasen's sudden words really startled Rurik, and the blade almost hit his hand.
"Yes, it just doesn't have any smell. It's in every breath you and I take. It's not very important to us, but it's more important to those trees. Blacksmith, don't speak louder, I'm afraid I will be hurt.
"
Klavason nodded as if he understood: "You continue, I'll be quiet."
Element No. 8 is annotated as "the breath of life."
The next two have no labels.
When it came to element No. 11, sodium, Rurik hesitated for a while and simply labeled it "half salt."
At this point, it was impossible for Klavasen to hold his mouth shut. In order not to frighten the child, he suppressed his trembling with surprise and suddenly asked: "Could it be that the salt we eat is actually a mixture of two elements?"
"Huh? Do you understand? I thought I would have to waste more words with you." Rurik sat upright, admiring this old guy's logical analysis ability.
"My son and I both understand. Since you just explained very well the elements that make up all minerals, how to get rid of the useless and leave the useful, or how to mix different elements into the most useful tools. From the beginning, I am very willing to believe in the world's
Everything is made up of a mixture of many elements. Could it be that salt...it..." Clavarson paused for breath, "Where is the other half?"
Rurik tapped the grid with the tip of his knife and silently recited the numbers until he hit the 17th chlorine.
"That's it, No. 17, it's the other half of salt. They are like a couple, holding each other's hands and becoming the smallest salt."
"Ah! So that's what it is~" Clavason looked at his son Kawei, "Do you believe it?"
"Is there anything more logical than this?" Kawei said seriously, "Now I believe everything Rurik says, and this is worth believing. I don't dare to be stupid enough to doubt Odin's wisdom."
At this moment, Rurik really didn't know what to say about them. Maybe they were very good students, but they just lacked the spirit of independent thinking.
When it came to No. 13 aluminum, ancient people had no ability to make aluminum. He thought of a description that a blacksmith might understand, so he marked "the green color given to emeralds." He marked it like this, and couldn't help but secretly admire his own wit. Everyone
Silicate gemstones, their beautiful colors come from small amounts of rare metals.
The two blacksmiths couldn't understand strange utensils like aluminum pots, but at least they understood colorful gems.
When it comes to silicon No. 14, this is the easiest to annotate, and it is also the easiest for the blacksmith to understand. Rurik simply made two annotations, one is "slag" and the other is "transparent sand". Because silicon is
This substance is the main component of slag, and it is already very easy for a blacksmith to understand it.
For this reason, Rurik had to say one more thing: "This substance is very important. Odin created the entire earth based on it, so if you hold a handful of soil, it will be the most abundant."
In response, the heads of the two blacksmiths were like the hands of a lucky cat, nodding their heads in affirmation.
Phosphorus No. 15 needs to be annotated. It cannot be explained that it is the cause of will-o'-the-wisp, as this would have a terrifying connotation. Rurik thought for a while and simply marked "it is part of the tooth". Since they can already understand
All things are a mixture of various elements, and the same goes for teeth.
The sulfur number 16 is the simplest to label, just because there is a word describing sulfur in Norse.
"Ah, it's the kind of yellow-white stone that can dissipate odor?" Kawei couldn't hold back his excitement this time.
Rurik did not hesitate: "That's it. When it mixes with the breath of life, it turns into a bad stench. And you, Kawei, why your fart smells bad after you eat it, it's also because of it."
The vulgar words suddenly made the two blacksmiths laugh, and when they calmed down, they were just surprised. Kawei really wanted to ask: "I was never stupid enough to go back to chew that yellow smelly stone, why did my fart
Does it stink? Could it be that I was sleepwalking and chewed it?"
"Of course not." Rurik might as well explain more, "It mixes into the earth, the onions absorb part of it, and you eat the onions in your stomach. Don't worry, it doesn't do any harm, and it even has some benefits."
"What are the benefits of the stench?" Kawei looked puzzled.
"I'm thinking now that I should ask the priest to add a little sulfur powder when making soap. In this way, the soap will turn yellowish white and have some smell. But in this way, the smallest lice and fleas will also be killed.
Better than the soap you have now."
Since soap was mentioned, Kawe simply talked about it excitedly: "Rurik, according to Odin's wisdom, soap is also a mixture of many elements, right?"
"Of course, don't ask any more questions first."
As Rurik marked the chlorine as "the other half of the salt" and the argon mark as blank, the carving knife then completed the mark on potassium, writing directly "the key to soap".
"Kawei, do you want to know more about soap? Now let me tell you. Look at this element No. 19. It is actually the ashes after the charcoal burns out. Those ashes are actually the key to making soap, and they can also make everyone
The trees are growing very lush. Do you understand?"
Card Nod nodded vigorously, "I probably understand."
"I hope you can understand. Now look at No. 20." Rurik quickly marked out the traces. In addition to the Roman letters of ca, the most critical marking surprised the two blacksmiths.
Kawei asked with trembling teeth: "You...you mean that those limes are actually it? And our bones are also it?"
"Yes, this is the truth. It is integrated into the earth. As long as we eat wheat and meat, especially milk, it enters our bodies and forms our bones. If we eat enough, the bones will be particularly hard.
Those poor people who broke their arms after a fall, I think you can already understand why."
"I understand. Maybe in order to... make my bones stronger, I should go to the mountains to find lime and take a bite of it."
"You are so stupid!" Klavason slapped his son on the head in excitement, "Rurik said that you are not allowed to chew the smelly stones, and you shouldn't chew the white stones either. Are you counting correctly?
, Rurik?”
Rurik could only explain with a smile; "Yes, you can't chew it."
Rurik is a person who can memorize many digits of the periodic table of elements. This kind of thing is not too difficult as long as he practices more. Rurik vaguely remembers a lot, but gradually his brain must have become a little difficult to use.
.
He continued to write down the numbers.
Due to the fact that people in this time and space cannot understand many metal elements, and it is difficult to prepare them, Rurik's name left a blank mark in Roman letters.
Up to the 26th iron, it has been clearly labeled, and the labeling is even simpler. It is just one word "svard", which is made up of five runes. Any blacksmith will understand that it is the element that makes up the iron sword.
He also wanted to say something special: "You will think that most things in the world are composed of a mixture of many elements. Your ordinary iron sword is not like this, it is pure. But pure things are often soft."
As he spoke, Rurik marked the color of cobalt as "sapphire color", while nickel was blank.
Rurik directly wrote its name in Norse for the very critical copper No. 29. After all, copper coins are used more frequently than silver coins in daily life. The so-called copper coin is a Roman copper coin, which is basically a pure piece of copper.
Cast of copper.
"You all know that pure copper is very soft, but adding tin and lead can make it very hard. Now you should understand that tin and lead are also elements."
Klavason nodded vigorously: "We can understand this. Tin is very soft, but lead is very heavy. They have a metallic luster. Maybe they are indeed similar existences."
"Your guess is very correct." Rurik motioned for the two of them to bring their heads together.
The two of them saw that Rurik directly marked the word "silver coin" on the grid directly below the copper. On the grid directly below the "silver coin", he also marked the word "gold coin".
Rurik completed the labeling, also based on the grid number.
Since the periodic table of elements is based on the number of protons and the number of electrons outside the nucleus as one of the important references, it is not difficult to compile the entire table and give correct numbers to gold and silver.
Being marked like this, the whole room was so quiet that the only sound was the crackling of the charcoal fire in the stove...