When Li Xiang was bargaining with Guan Haitong of the institute's management committee.
The bombed-out laboratory was finally cleaned up by a group of researchers.
Since the new equipment has not yet arrived, all researchers can only do some theoretical work, or study the pile of junk to see if there is anything there.
Yang Gang and others all know that the residue inside the reactor is the most likely place to find it.
June 8.
Today is the second day after the explosion in the laboratory of the Institute of Normal Temperature Superconductors.
Li Xiang and other big guys are considering how to improve the experiment and discussing the improvement requirements for experimental equipment.
The other researchers are doing their own thing.
Yang Gang said to Yao Zhaoyi on the side: Why not study the residue we cleaned up yesterday?
Yao Zhao thought for a moment that there was nothing to do now, and nodded in agreement.
The two of them came to the laboratory's experimental product warehouse and retrieved the items from yesterday's explosion laboratory.
Other things are of little value, so we focus on studying the residues of the reactor. Yang Gang said while rummaging through the box of reactor residues.
The reactor residue is here. Yao Zhaoyi pointed to the three boxes on the shelf not far away and said.
[No.: 5761 (Reactor Residue 1) 2019.6.7]
[No.: 5762 (Reactor Residue 2) 2019.6.7]
[No.: 5763 (Reactor Residue 3) 2019.6.7]
Yang Gang quickly took out the three boxes, while Yao Zhaoyi registered with the warehouse manager that they had taken out the three boxes.
Let’s go. Yao Zhaoyi said while holding the warehouse receipt.
The two took three boxes to the laboratory and prepared the testing equipment.
Starting from the first residue, Yang Gang opened the box numbered 5761 and carefully took out a little residue from it.
The residue in this box was less than 3 grams, and he only took out less than one-tenth.
Yao Zhaoyi was operating the instrument.
The two of them divided their labors and cooperated to methodically detect and analyze the material components in the reactor residue 1.
Ordinary nitrogen compounds, as well as some compounds in the reactor itself, Yang Gang said while looking at the test report.
Yao Zhaoyi is recording these data.
Suddenly Yang Gang stopped talking.
Why did you find anything? Yao Zhaoyi raised his head and asked.
I'm not sure.
Yang Gang carefully moved the electric realm back to its previous position.
Soon the spherical molecules appeared on the monitor screen.
What is carbon 60? This was Yang Gang's first reaction when he saw the structure of this molecule.
Carbon 60, do you mean football ene? Yao Zhaoyi stopped the pen he was writing and focused his eyes on the monitor screen.
A spherical molecule appeared in their eyes.
Carbon 60 is really weird. Yao Zhaoyi said doubtfully.
I was also very puzzled that there was carbon 60 in the residue. Yang Gang was also confused.
Yao Zhaoyi continued to observe this molecule, and suddenly he had an idea: Gangzi, this thing is not necessarily carbon 60.
Isn't it carbon 60? Is there still an atomic number of 60? Yang Gang was about to refute, but stopped while speaking, and then said uncertainly:
Nitrogen 60
Yao Zhao nodded: There are no raw materials to generate carbon 60 in our reactor, not even carbon atoms. How to generate carbon 60 cannot be generated out of thin air!
What you say makes sense. Even the carbon atoms carried by the reactor itself cannot produce carbon 60 by such a coincidence. Yang Gang agrees with this guess.
There is no solution for us to guess here. If you want to know whether it is nitrogen 60, just check the molecular weight and you will know.
Yes, we will check the molecular weight immediately.
I'm going to prepare the equipment. Gangzi, please continue testing to see if there is no second identical molecule.
no problem.
The two men split into two groups. Yang Gang carefully tested the residue, while Yao Zhaoyi prepared the equipment for detecting molecular weight.
If it is carbon 60, it is a stable molecule formed purely by the combination of carbon atoms. It has 60 vertices and 32 faces, of which 12 are regular pentagons and 20 are regular hexagons. Its relative molecular mass is about 720.
And if it is nitrogen 60, the relative molecular mass of the nitrogen atom is about 14, so its relative molecular mass is about 840.
The structure of nitrogen-60 is the same as that of carbon-60, and its properties are also very similar. After carbon-60 was discovered, many scientists used computer simulations to give the predicted structure of nitrogen-60 and silicon-60.
However, nitrogen-60 and silicon-60 have never been discovered or synthesized, and everyone regards these two things as ideal products.
Yao Zhaoyi prepared the equipment and asked Yang Gang: The equipment is ready, how are you doing there?
I found three more spherical molecules and were extracting them. After Yang Gang finished speaking, he carried out the extraction work with breathless concentration.
This did not require him to be cautious. After all, this thing must be counted among the residues. If you are not careful, the sample may be lost.
When Harvard University was doing research on metallic hydrogen, something like this happened. After the paper was written, it was discovered that the sample of metallic hydrogen was missing. Is there anything sadder than this?
If someone else develops metallic hydrogen and wins the dynamite award in the future, this research institute at Harvard University will probably be so depressed that it vomits blood.
Although Yao Zhaoyi wanted to help, he still held back. At this time, it is not that there are more people, but there is greater power. It is more likely that there are too many people and the samples are lost.
In the cool laboratory, Yang Gang was sweating profusely extracting the only four spherical molecules.
After successfully taking out two of the four molecules, he took a long breath.
Fortunately, I managed to extract two of them.
Come on, I'm already excited.
If you are excited, calm down, be careful of extreme happiness leading to sadness.
The two of them gently extracted the two spherical molecules and put them into the molecular weight detection equipment. This equipment was developed by Galaxy Precision Instrument Company and can start to detect molecular weight and atomic weight.
Since there were other compounds in the sample, there was a lot of test data, so the two of them looked at it carefully one by one.
Yes, indeed there is. Yao Zhaoyi said while suppressing his excitement.
where
this.
[Relative molecular mass: 840]
Soon the two found another piece of detection data with the same number of 840.
It seems that it is really nitrogen 60. Unexpectedly, it exploded into a surprise. Yang Gang said happily.
We first store these two samples and the residue, and then test the remaining two residues to see if nitrogen 60 is still present. Yao Zhaoyi suggested.
Yang Gang nodded: OK.
The two continued to detect the remaining two reactor residues, and soon they found 6 nitrogen-60 molecules in residue 5762 and 3 nitrogen-60 molecules in residue 5763.
After completing the extraction and preservation work, the two came to Li Xiang's office and reported the test report to Li Xiang.
Nitrogen 60 molecules were found in the residue of the reactor. Li Xiang was very surprised by this discovery. He quickly read the test report carefully.
Looking at the tested molecular weights and 13 samples, he had to believe in this unexpected product.