And Fang Xiaoyue also conducted passivation experiments on nitrocellulose.
After all, the sensitivity of this thing is too high. If it vibrates slightly, it will make a loud bang on impact, turning it into a gorgeous art.
In this way, the refills and medicine bags made of this thing are really time bombs.
As for the yellow drug bitter folic acid and TNT, TNT is a drug with extremely strong comprehensive properties and has been widely used in later generations.
However, with the current technical strength of the dock area, it can only achieve laboratory-level production. It is impossible to use it to blow up the rocks in the river. Picric acid is used to blow up the rocks.
The yield of bitter folic acid is not high, and its stability is still much poorer. Therefore, it is impossible to use it in large quantities, both in terms of yield and stability.
Even the chemical currently used in Shilu iron ore mining is currently only black powder.
As for another drug, nitroglycerin, Fang Xiaoyue had considered it before.
But the biggest problem with this thing is that the source of raw materials is unstable.
The production of nitroglycerin requires glycerol, which is either natural or synthetic.
Natural glycerin can be purified and extracted from the soap-making waste liquid of the soap factory in the dock area, which can also be regarded as a kind of waste recycling.
But the problem is that the amount of glycerin extracted from the soap-making waste liquid is relatively low, and the impurity content is high, especially the inorganic acids in it, which is troublesome.
If you want to achieve military quality, you will need to spend a lot of money to purify and eliminate impurities.
In addition, if grease is simply used to produce glycerol, the current technology in the dock area cannot create the high-pressure hydrolysis environment required for the grease hydrolysis method without special rubber.
Synthetic glycerin requires propylene, and propylene comes from gasoline. To put it simply, if there is no stable source of petroleum, do not consider synthetic glycerin.
Although nitroglycerin can be passivated, as mentioned before, it cannot be produced without a source of petroleum.
Nitrocellulose is much more convenient. After mastering the relevant knowledge of passivation technology, as long as you have nitric acid and cotton, it is really easy to industrially manufacture passivated nitrocellulose.
The equivalent of passivated nitrocellulose exceeds that of TNT, and after passivation treatment, it becomes the famous smokeless gunpowder in later generations. Although this thing is still inferior to RDX and so on in many aspects, it is compared with
Black powder has come a long way.
After the passivation experiment was successful, although Fang Xiaoyue wanted to conduct further research on it, considering the urgent needs of the military team, he suspended the experiment and began to design a production process manual for smokeless gunpowder.
It is quite easy to design the production process manual for this kind of drug.
Although due to time constraints, the mercury fulminate and smokeless gunpowder produced experimentally contained a large amount of impurities, which affected its performance and was much worse than later industrialized products.
However, after experiments, it was found that even though it contains a large amount of impurities, which greatly weakens the detonation speed and energy effect, it still surpasses black powder in all aspects.
Fang Xiaoyue hand-made a batch of pointed copper-cased bullets, then hastily designed a needle-fired musket, and finally fired it.
The conclusion is that bullets using smokeless gunpowder as propellant have the advantage of faster exit speed, the gunpowder residue in the gun chamber is only 11% of black powder, and the smoke generated after the bullet is fired
Compared to black powder, it is almost non-existent.
Let's put it this way, after black powder is fired, it will be a cloud of black mist, which greatly hinders the soldiers' vision, while after the smokeless gunpowder is fired, it will be a cloud of blue smoke, which has little effect on the soldiers' vision.
In other words, if this kind of bullet is used, soldiers will not need to regularly clean the barrel of the gun with a purge, and they will be able to shoot accurately in the future.
When they learned that smokeless gunpowder had been successfully developed and could be put into production at any time, it was not only the technical staff of the industrial group who became excited, but also some military enthusiasts from other groups became crazy.
They came up with their own firearms design drawings in a short period of time.
Well, after Fang Xiaoyue’s review, it was discovered that most of these firearm designs were copied from famous guns of later generations.
For example, famous guns such as Mauser G98, M1891, Maxim 7.92mm machine gun, etc.
Not to mention, these military enthusiasts are really good at drawing drawings, especially the Mauser G98 firearm design drawings, which are almost comparable to the design drawings drawn by Fang Xiaoyue himself.
Well, Fang Xiaoyue never thought about designing a new gun by herself.
After all, even if a new gun designed by oneself is put into actual combat, it will take a long time to continuously improve.
Instead of wasting time and energy on this, it is better to directly choose a firearm that has been tested in later generations.
Fang Xiaoyue chose Mauser G98.
No way, this firearm is too classic.
This is a rear-loading single-shot rifle with a rotating locking bolt, and is also the originator of the Mauser gun family. Most of the rotating rear-pull bolts designed and produced since then are designed based on the principle of this Mauser G98.
As for the semi-automatic and automatic rifles that some military enthusiasts strongly requested, they were directly rejected by Fang Xiaoyue.
What a joke, not to mention that the current industrial group cannot meet the technical requirements for continuous firing in terms of barrel materials and spring materials, but only that equipping the army with semi-automatic and automatic rifles will consume a lot of ammunition.
The obvious problem is that it is impossible for travelers to squat on the island all the time.
Even if the preparations haven't been made yet, there are already many time-travelers clamoring to land in the Light Cave to meet the Qing army.
And if we were to fight the Qing army, we would have to consider logistical issues.
Not to mention anything else, if you are equipped with a semi-automatic rifle, you can shoot out three or four bullets in one shot, and if you hold the trigger still, you may have a box of thirty rounds.
And even if those soldiers have sufficient physical strength, how many bullets can they carry?
After a battle and all the ammunition is used up, can we still fight?
And based on the current reserve of naturalized technical workers in the dock area, even if a bullet production line is built, the output cannot be squandered by an army equipped with semi-automatic rifles.
In Fang Xiaoyue's view, the Mauser G98 is already an artifact of war in this era.
At this time in Europe, which had just ended the Thirty Years' War, armies of various countries were still using smoothbore muzzle-loading guns!
The previous Thunderbolt 1646 was considered an artifact.
And at this time, the bosses of the Provisional Management Committee are not willing to directly equip the Mauser G98 to the army.
Because the Thunderbolt 1646 model has been produced from the beginning until it was almost discontinued half a month ago, a total of 6,000 pieces have been produced!
Well, although Sun Xuebin lost no time in recruiting a group of new soldiers, the total number of troops in the dock area was only 2,700.