"Welcome Dr. Wang to the Institute of Rare Earths for guidance, I heard that Dr. Wang also has a certain amount of research on rare earths, I hope to be able to give advice!" At the gate of the Four Seasons Rare Earth Research Institute, Lu Weifeng, the director of the research institute who is already slightly bald in his forties, said enthusiastically. In front of him, it was Wang Ning and his party.

"Senior Brother Lu is polite, I'm not here to guide. We haven't seen each other much since we met in the capital, and I happen to be in Four Seasons City, so I'll come and see you. As for rare earth research, you're the real expert! ”

After shaking hands, Wang Ning said with a smile.

That's right, Lu Weifeng, director of the Four Seasons Rare Earth Research Institute, and Wang Ning are really not strangers, they are both students of Shen Chongfeng, although their research directions are different, they are both real brothers.

"We're family, don't see each other. What experts are not experts, but I know Dr. Wang, your recent research, that rare earth ......"

Without waiting for Lu Weifeng to finish speaking, Wang Ning hurriedly interrupted: "Indeed, I have been very interested in rare earths recently, no, I came here specifically to learn from the senior brother, I hope the senior brother can give me advice!" ”

Interrupted by Wang Ning, Lu Weifeng not only did not get angry, but seemed to suddenly remember something, quickly closed his mouth, and looked left and right vigilantly. After discovering that they were all veteran researchers, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "Yes, yes, I still have some experience in rare earths, junior brother, you can come in, if there is anything unclear, senior brother can give you an answer at any time!" ”

As he spoke, he led a group of people into the Rare Earth Research Institute.

The Four Seasons Rare Earth Research Institute has been established for a long time, one or two decades. However, the interior decoration and equipment are not old, and they have been renovated and replaced several times. The Four Seasons Rare Earth Research Institute is also at the forefront of the rare earth laboratory.

Rare earths are regulated resources. The content of the research cannot be compared with nuclear energy. However, it also has a higher level of secrecy than ordinary laboratories, especially the analysis experiments of various elements of rare earths, which are absolutely top secret.

If nuclear energy is a national top secret, the experimental analysis of rare earths is at least a provincial level of secrecy, and ordinary people are not allowed to access it. Part of it is a lot of spies, spies like to explore, and they can analyze a lot of things from it.

This is the case of the Four Seasons Rare Earth Research Institute, which has a special external laboratory outside. It can be used by major universities and scholars, and only needs someone to guarantee that it will pass the verification. In addition to external laboratories, there are also dedicated internal laboratories, all of which are used by internal researchers. Except for some students from major universities, most of them are full-fledged researchers with internal records, and they are also considered members of the system.

As the person in charge of the Four Seasons City Rare Earth Research Institute, Lu Weifeng naturally has certain privileges, at least he can bring Wang Ning into the internal laboratory, and he does not need to go through too many audits.

The environment in an in-house lab is not better than that in an off-site lab. But in terms of equipment, it is not comparable to external laboratories. Every piece of equipment in the in-house lab is state-of-the-art. Basically, it is replaced or upgraded once a year.

There is no way, the times are developing too fast, and so is science, and the discoveries and research in a year will push science forward. The result of the promotion is the update of equipment, which cannot be kept up with by general research institutes, and only real national or provincial key research institutes can keep up with the development of science and always remain at the forefront of the scientific community.

This is normal, just like ordinary people pursue Apple mobile phones, Apple mobile phones and related tablets and smart watches are upgraded almost at a semi-annual frequency. New products are launched every six months, and these products are very attractive to the average person.

However, attraction is always attractiveness, and only those local tyrants can fully catch up with the upgrading of fruits and buy the latest products in the first time. Ordinary people can only wait longer, and as for those with worse economic conditions, they can only use other brands of mobile phones.

The national and key laboratories are those local tyrants, who can keep up with the replacement at any time. Even some heavyweight laboratories, who are leading the revolution in the scientific community, will naturally be able to update their equipment as soon as possible. As for other municipal research institutes and university laboratories with poor conditions, the speed of equipment renewal will be much slower.

Often, the efficiency of equipment update determines the strength of the laboratory, the more advanced the equipment, the more advanced the research that the laboratory can achieve, and the more accurate the data that can be obtained.

Scientific experiments are not an ordinary industry, there can be more and less errors, any errors in scientific experiments will evolve into a huge bottleneck, and the final level of experiments will be very different.

It's not that there aren't good scientists in the private sector, it's just that they're limited by equipment and can't present their research. Equipment and laboratories complement each other, but they influence each other. A true scientist needs to get the answer from the device and find the truth from the answer.

When Wang Ning and his entourage entered the laboratory, several doctoral students were carrying out daily maintenance of the equipment. Equipment needs to be maintained, and the more cutting-edge equipment and manpower it needs to maintain, the higher the number of times it will be. Otherwise, the resulting experimental data will be inaccurate.

Of course, this work cannot be carried out by the scientists themselves, and most of the work is done by apprentices. Most of the work of those PhD-level scientific apes is to deal with equipment.

Similarly, because the maintenance of the equipment needs to be carried out by scientific research apes, this has become an important way for many experiments to leak secrets. A lot of data and research process are leaked out through this maintenance process again and again. Good scientific agents can obtain the data they want from the most basic data and operations, and can even restore the experimental process and then transmit it to various intelligence agencies.

The Four Seasons City Rare Earth Laboratory also has its own maintainers, and no one knows whether there are spies among them. It is impossible for a spy to write two words on his face, people are separated from each other, no one knows what the other party is thinking, and the guards other than the scientists, what they have to do is to make sure that there is no big problem with the people who are next to the scientists.

It can be seen that Lu Weifeng has already instructed which maintenance personnel, after seeing Wang Ning and his party come in, several people hurriedly stopped their work, said hello to Lu Weifeng and left the laboratory.

Watching the maintainer leave, and after the door of the laboratory was closed, Lu Weifeng, who had a flat expression, asked with a little urgency: "Little junior brother, the Ning element you said can really be extracted from rare earth slate ore?" (To be continued.) )