Chapter 972 Evidence of Chinese Ceramic Technology - Terracotta Warriors, Kaolin

Dean Ji and Qian Lao both looked at Su Huai with a shocked gaze, and if Su Huai knew what they were thinking at this time, he was afraid that he would laugh in his heart.

Of course, the ancient Chinese were not aliens, because he knew how to make this industrial ceramics, although it was born from the ceramic technology of China, but it was the result of decades of accumulation and development of materials science in the era of science and technology.

But when it appeared in this time and space, of course, the scientific community would not think that it was made by a layman, Su Huai, and could only be attributed to the ancient Chinese......

Dean Ji was still arrogant before at this time, grabbed Su Huai's hand and asked:

"Mr. Su, have you done a detailed test of this kind of ceramic? What is the resistivity and what is the melting point?"

To be an insulator, these are the two most critical statistics.

The higher the high temperature resistance, the less volume is used, which can achieve the desired effect of a manned rocket.

The higher the resistivity, the more circuitically and electromagnetically risks are avoided.

"This ......" Su Huai shook his head helplessly: "Our equipment is not enough, the maximum temperature can only reach 1500 degrees, so I don't know what the melting point of this ceramic is, and I don't have the corresponding instrument for resistance measurement......"

Of course, Su Huai knows the data...... But if he reports it directly, it will be too unreasonable, and if others ask him a question, how does he know? Then he really can't explain it......

Dean Ji and Qian Lao were all shaking at the same time, more than 1500 degrees? This is simply terrifying data.

"Quick, take those two values. โ€

A group of experts changed the ceramic pieces into the electric kiln, and the temperature increased little by little from 1300 degrees, and everyone gathered in front of the console of the electric kiln, looking at the data on the instrument.

1400 degree ...... No melting......

1500 degree ...... Sure enough, as Su Huai said, it didn't melt.

1600 degree ...... Still intact!!

At this time, the hearts of everyone present were beating at a high frequency, because no matter what the other data of this ceramic was, the high temperature resistance alone was already giving goosebumps to the ground.

Then 1700 degrees...... 1800 degree ...... 1900 degrees ...... Until 2000 degrees, there was no sign of melting, and at 2025 degrees, the ceramic pieces finally softened......

Everyone present is an elite in the aerospace field and has seen countless scientific research miracles, but when they see a new material, a thing made by the ancient Chinese, with a melting point of more than 2,000 degrees, their scalps can't help but numb.

How did these ancient Chinese people make this kind of thing......

"The data on resistivity and Moss hardness are also out. "At this time, another staff member came over with a data sheet.

"How many ......?" Dean Ji took a deep breath and said, "Say it directly." โ€

"The resistivity is more than 10 to the 14th power...... Moss hardness 9ยท0......"

The two data were read out, and there was no sound on the scene.

Although it is still unknown whether this material can be made into a thermal insulation layer for manned rockets, the performance of this terrifying material is enough to revolutionize the technology industry.

The Huaxia aerospace experts touched the other ceramic pieces again, and their expressions were full of a sense of sacredness, and they only felt that the Huaxia ancestors were simply miraculous!

"It's no wonder that ancient ceramics used to be a luxury all over the world, it's unbelievable......" Professor Yao thought it was amazing.

"The name of Huaxia in the ancient world was 'the land of ceramics'......" Su Huai explained proudly:

"Ceramics are not only beautiful, insulated, but more importantly, very hard, so they are made into tableware and handicrafts perfectly, and it will not be scratched after a long time, compared to the silver tableware used in ancient Europa, which is neither insulated nor easy to blacken, and after a period of time, it is full of scratches, which is very cheap. โ€

At this time, the Russian team was in a very complicated mood, they originally thought that Su Huai was just bragging, but they never expected him to come up with such a good new material.

Just now, Dean Ji made fun of Su Huai, and compared the legendary Russian chemist Mendeleev, but Su Huai really came up with a new material that is unique in the world, doesn't this prove that the Chinese are better than Mendeleev, the legendary Russian scientist, in chemistry?

A Russian expert, looking at the ceramic pieces, questioned with a face full of disbelief: "This is impossible? What can we only make with an electric kiln? How could the ancient Chinese people make it?"

The implication is that it is suspected that this new material was made by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Another Russian expert also said:

"To make this kind of porcelain, the key is to keep the temperature of the furnace in the kiln uniform, in the process of sintering, the porcelain will shrink, if the temperature of the furnace is uneven, some places shrink more, some places shrink less, so that there will be internal stress, it will be damaged, I don't understand, how did the ancient Chinese master this technology?"

Su Huai looked at these questioning Russian humanity:

"I don't know about this, ancient China did not leave a technical record in this regard, but left a large amount of physical evidence of this technology, our Huaxia Federation of Literary and Art Circles has acquired a number of Chinese remnants of the Qin Dynasty Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Europe and the United States, I don't know if you have seen it?"

Su Huai said and looked at them and said:

"You should have heard of it, although the terracotta warriors and horses are pottery, but the principle of molding is similar to porcelain, but it is also sintered one by one, and then assembled into a human shape, and each part in the sintering process, because of shrinkage, the volume will shrink by two.

In order to keep the shrinkage of each part consistent and able to splic, the kiln fire must be very uniform to ensure that the shrinkage rate of each component is the same......"

When Su Huai said this, the Russian experts all looked at each other and did not refute it, obviously knowing that there was such a thing as terracotta warriors.

Su Huai had already guessed that Russia was also one of the original Eight-Nation Alliance, how could it be that it did not plunder Chinese cultural relics?

"This terracotta warrior is only pottery, not porcelain, why is it that only porcelain appears in China?" the Russian expert continued to question, still gritting his teeth.

Su Huai smiled slightly:

"This is very simple, in addition to the wisdom of the ancient Chinese people, but also because of the geography of China, the raw materials for making porcelain need kaolin, although kaolin is called soil, it is actually a kind of fossil after granite weathering, although kaolin can be seen everywhere now, but it is extremely rare in ancient times, there is the highest quality kaolin in Jingdezhen, China, which is unique in the world.

The various civilizations in the early world either did not have kaolin resources, such as ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, or the civilization was too backward to find the use of kaolin, such as Europa, so Huaxia became the only early civilization that discovered and used kaolin. โ€

China monopolized the production of porcelain for thousands of years, but after the 17th century, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, and even Europe would get the technology to make porcelain.

However, in this time and space, it is precisely because of the existence of a catastrophe that these things have not happened, so Su Huai unveiled the secret of porcelain today, which amazed all these aerospace experts.

However, there is a catastrophe, and these things have not happened, so Su Huai revealed the secret of porcelain today, which made these aerospace experts extremely amazed.