The laboratory is located in the southeast of the School of Chemistry, adjacent to the alchemy room.

In fact, the alchemy room is just Wei Ao's own term, and the real name should be the metallurgical room.

Chemistry is an experimental science, including the smelting of various ores, which require melting through high-temperature flames.

When Wei Ao was in Fengming Mountain, he got a pill furnace by himself and raised the temperature in the pill furnace to a thousand degrees by pushing the blower box by hand.

At Qingzhou Institute of Chemistry, the blast box was improved by Ma Jun and turned into a tie rod piston type wind box. Together with selected coking coal, it can heat the temperature in the metallurgical furnace to about two thousand degrees, including the qualified steel products in Qingzhou today.

Refined using these equipment.

Don't think that the ancients were very backward. In fact, during the Song and Ming Dynasties, both technology and economic strength were very powerful and ranked among the best in the entire world.

If it were not for the lack of scientific foundation for the Industrial Revolution, it would not be the British's turn to dominate the world.

According to historical records, the Boshan Glass Workshop site is located at the north end of Boshan Street in Zibo City. It has the best natural coal minerals in ancient times. Since the Song Dynasty, it has become the mainstream glass production base at that time and can refine coking coal.

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At present, Qingzhou steelmaking boilers are all using fire cloth, that is, asbestos ropes for sealing.

Asbestos gaskets are still the mainstream sealing material even in the 21st century.

Unfortunately, like rubber, asbestos mines are mainly produced in the Western Regions. Not only is the situation there extremely chaotic, but mineral mining is also very difficult. The amount of asbestos obtained by Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping from the Western Regions every year is very small and cannot meet the industrial demand.

But Chen Mu is not in a hurry, there will be milk and bread.

When the Han Dynasty rules the world again one day, whether it is rubber or asbestos, these basic raw materials will one day be in the pocket and become the cornerstone of the rise of an empire!

When Chen Mu and Wei Ao came to the laboratory, they saw that the laboratory was a row of solid houses made of cement. Each room was closed and sealed with glass doors and windows. Since there was no plastic and rubber, it was impossible to make isolation suits to isolate the toxic air.

, Therefore, the current laboratories no longer conduct experiments on toxic gases, but conduct ordinary chemical experiments to minimize the possible dangers.

Senior students are studying production seriously in the room, with teachers teaching and students experimenting on their own.

They used glasses and glass rods to stir and add various liquids to make the required solutions, and then observed the changes and effects of these solutions according to the experimental process.

Glass existed in ancient China. In many historical novels, the time travellers made a fortune by making glass as soon as they passed through.

But in fact, as early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the ancients obtained colored glaze by firing sand grains.

It's just that although the colored glass we get is colorful and very beautiful, it is easy to break, because what we make is lead-barium glass, while what the West makes is soda-lime glass. Although the shape is rough, it will not break when touched.

The School of Chemistry needs glassware for various experiments, and lead-barium glass that breaks when touched is naturally not suitable. Therefore, under the guidance of Chen Mu, Wei Ao, dean of the School of Chemistry, has been focusing on the research and development of soda-lime glass for a long time.

Manufacturing, using the blowing method, has successfully produced many glass products.

Among them, microscopes and telescopes have been developed, because the manufacture of soda-lime glass is not complicated. It only needs to use soda-lime quartz ore instead of raw materials containing lead and barium during the production process.

It's as if the force of gravity has always existed, but for thousands of years no one has ever questioned why they have been standing on the ground instead of being able to fly into the sky like a bird. All that is missing is a man named Newton sitting under an apple tree.

Chen Mu helped Wei Ao pierce this layer of window paper, and then the rest of the matter would be relatively simple.

Not to mention Chen Mu, any junior high school student knows the principles of microscopes and telescopes, and they are very simple to make.

The only problem is that the current manufacturing ratio of soda-lime glass has not yet reached a perfect level. The perfect ratio is 72% quartz sand, 15% soda ash, 9% limestone, and other small amounts of alumina, magnesium oxide, potassium oxide, etc.

These substances generally exist in feldspar, so the complete ratio should add 4% feldspar.

It's just that Chen Mu is not a top student in chemistry after all. He plays economics and has limited knowledge of chemistry, which is what he learned in high school. If you want him to play with some economic means and he is still good at it, let him create the perfect proportion of soda-lime glass, that is pure

Torture people.

Therefore, even if soda-lime glass is manufactured, its purity is still far behind that of later generations of completely transparent glass. The manufactured microscopes and telescopes are extremely ineffective. By grinding two lenses and superimposing them, it is indeed possible to achieve the desired observation.

The effect is far away, but if you really look at it, it's like myopia without glasses, and the whole world is blurry.

Therefore, in many novels, people travel back in time to create glass, and then immediately create telescopes and microscopes. This is obviously a lie.

Before someone could figure out the most perfect glass proportions and create the purest glass, it would be impossible to create impurity-free glass even with the blowing method. Naturally, it would also be impossible to create telescopes and microscopes.

As a result, the current glass products can only meet people's daily needs, but cannot meet the needs of more rigorous experiments. At least without a microscope, it is not easy for biology to achieve greater development.

But all this is not far off, because perfectly proportioned glass products are still being experimented with.

Just like when scientists made electric lamps, it took several years and thousands of materials to finally find tungsten filament.

Science is a long process, far from being as simple as people think.

Accompanied by Wei Ao, Chen Mu inspected all laboratories and observed the students' attitudes towards science.

He saw that many people were doing experiments very hard and seriously. No one was lazy, and no one was looking around and not listening to the teacher's explanation.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Chen Mu was still very happy to see such a result.

Most of the students here were born in poor families. In order to find a way out, they had no choice but to enter the most dangerous chemistry college with the best treatment.

It’s just that chemistry is different from physics. It is a science that changes the properties of matter. Although it is impossible to actually create gold, its function is to create a gold by fusion and separation of two or more substances.

plant new substances.

Therefore, it requires a large number of experiments to support it. Many senior students in the School of Chemistry spend most of their time in the laboratory, enduring boring and uninteresting experimental content.

Even if there is no progress, at least their attitude is still very diligent and serious.

Chen Mu was still very satisfied with their efforts.

However, he also knew that it might be difficult to achieve greater breakthroughs with the current level of chemistry.

Because like physics and biology, chemistry in Qingzhou is still in the practical stage, and a lot of theoretical knowledge has not yet been created.

Not only now, but also in the West, practice has been at the forefront for a long time and theory has been behind, and it will take a long time to establish it.

Situations like this were quite common in the ancient East and West, but one thing is an inevitable phenomenon. That is, the logical system established in the ancient Greek era laid the foundation for science. After the European Renaissance, a spurt of theories emerged.

break out.

Finally, at the end of the 18th century, using long-term theoretical knowledge as accumulation, the industrial revolution officially took off.

This is something Einstein mentioned when he wrote a letter in 1953.

This is also the fundamental reason why he mentioned in his letter why ancient China did not become the origin of modern science even though many inventions and creations in ancient China were ahead of the world.

As a person in the financial industry, Chen Mu is not a science or engineering major, but he is still very clear about the impact of mathematical logic on physical chemistry.

After all, mathematical logic is extremely important not only for physics and chemistry, but also for everything in the world, including finance and economics.

Therefore, he was not in a hurry for the School of Chemistry to produce anything earth-shattering.

What he hopes to see is that the logical thinking system that started in the School of Mathematics will be expanded, and then extended to the School of Physics and the School of Chemistry.

There is no separation between mathematics, physics and chemistry. Without mathematics, physics and chemistry would be like castles in the air without any foundation.

Therefore, it is good to see students from the School of Chemistry actively carrying out experimental research in chemistry.

It is unrealistic to complete the 2,000-year process of the West within a few years.

Everything needs time to settle.

Even if there is a person from the future leading them forward now, it will only save them a lot of detours.

However, even if it takes more than a thousand years of detours, it will still take dozens or hundreds of years.

When the School of Mathematics can expand the traditional Chinese computational mathematics and, with the help of Chen Mu, construct the most important components of mathematics such as logic and deduction, then physics and chemistry will also show leapfrog progress.

By then, "Universal Gravity" and part of the "Periodic Table of Elements" will probably come into being soon.

At that time, it was the golden age of vigorous development of scientific theoretical knowledge.

Chen Mu.

I would be happy to witness that era many years later!

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"There are many trees in Xi'an, and there are branches in Yi Nuo. They are fertile in their youth, and they are ignorant in joy."

"Xi has Chang Chu, Yi Nuo has its flowers, Yao's is fertile, and the music has no home."

"Xi has Chang Chu, Yi Nuo actually, Yao Zhi Wo Wo. There is no room for joy."

Coming out of the School of Chemistry and heading south, you can see the wall of the Confucian School.

The area of ​​the Confucian College is second only to the Agricultural College in the entire Taishan Academy, not only because of its vast area, but also because of its large number of students.

There are more than 30,000 people in the Academy and more than 30,000 students in the Confucian Academy.

Because there is only one compulsory course in Taishan Academy’s study system, which is the Confucian College, and then you can choose one or two or three elective courses in other colleges.

Almost all students' daily courses require half a day of Confucianism before they can take other courses, so Confucianism courses account for half of the total courses.

The Confucian Academy has twelve gates and covers an area of ​​1,000 acres. The palace complex is huge in scale. There are even several hills inside, surrounded by jungles and lush green. After entering, the roads on both sides are towering green and dappled with sunlight.

On the large lawn not far away, many students recited the Book of Songs and recited scriptures.

Their language is extremely peculiar. Some of it is like a combination of French and Russian, with the same pronunciation as French, and many of them have Russian tongue flicks. If a modern person listens to it, it will be like listening to a book from heaven.

But this is ancient Chinese, and it is also the authentic Guandong Qi language. Today's Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou and other places mostly speak this language. Only some southern dialects and Minnan dialects that have been passed down to later generations belong to the Guandong Qi language.

branches of language.

For example, in the Jingmen dialect of Hubei in later generations, there is a large number of inheritance in this aspect. The idiom of eloquent tongue was used to describe people who spoke like springs at that time.
To be continued...