"Children, your little brother has given you an excellent gift, and you have helped your little brother to verify some of his assumptions. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info, on the other hand, saw hope that before I died, I might be able to see clearly the rules hidden within the discipline I had dedicated my life to. ”

"And now, the last thing I'm going to do for the rest of my life...... It is, as your little brother said, to use all my fame, connections, and money to exchange for a balance that can weigh extremely light weight and error. With this balance, I can know the specific gravity of various substances that are common to us, such as...... One chlorine is several times that of hydrogen. ”

"When that day comes, the truth hidden in this world will be known, just like the simplest, most common and most unchangeable gunpowder ratio, there must be such a rule hidden in it."

Trying his best to suppress his excitement when he said this, the disciples all heard it, and the gentleman had already believed the guess of the junior brother in the depths of his heart: if the number of particles inside the same volume of gas is not the same, then how can it be possible to measure the specific gravity? If the specific gravity of a gas cannot be measured, how is it possible to measure solids and liquids?

Hearing Mr.'s somewhat melancholy and uplifting summary, the disciples comforted one after another: "Yes, sir, it will definitely be." With your connections and reputation, even the best craftsmen will not refuse your request, and a balance that can be weighed precisely to the smallest of weights is sure to appear. ”

The old gentleman laughed again and said, "Li Yun said that your junior brother Chen Jian is like a businessman, and about this balance, he wrote in his letter to me: he will make a lot of money in Mincheng first, and then take out 10,000 silver coins as a reward, and whichever craftsman can make a qualified balance, he will reward these 10,000 silver coins without blinking." If 10,000 is not enough, then earn 100,000. ”

According to the system he guessed, without such an accurate scale, our discipline will become more and more difficult in the future. And once there is this balance, there will be a very significant breakthrough, even surpassing the most classical period hundreds of years ago, when the foundation of the school palace was laid. He said that he was also doing something that he should do if he really loved this discipline in Mincheng, and asked me to forgive him for his rudeness in not coming to apprentice. ”

"Guess what this balance is because of my fame and connections? Or the tens of thousands of silver coins he promised? ”

It was rare for the gentleman to joke, and all the disciples understood that the gentleman was in a very good mood at this time, so they all laughed, but did not answer.

They know that what they want is not an answer, but only a hope, and whatever the reason, it is what the gentleman is happy about.

After laughing, Mr. Mu pointed to the small, gray metal wrapped in beeswax and said, "This is a gift from your junior brother. I'm old, and the future is yours after all. Come on, come and give this metal a name, a name that sounds good and charming. ”

Everyone immediately began to talk about it, knowing that some things will be immortal, and these disciples understood that as long as the people who recorded history still existed, as long as people still ate table salt, then the name will always be remembered by future generations, and the person who gave this new metal name will also be remembered forever.

After a long quarrel, a brand new name appeared on paper. It's a new word, a word that has never been there before, but it has all the charm of pictographic ideographs. A new metal is discovered, and a new word is followed.

Because it's metal, it's a gold letter. Because it comes from table salt, and table salt is salty, salty becomes the other half.

As is the funny joke in the agronomy class, if you don't know the fish, just read the right; If you don't know the bird, just read the left. The chemistry students finally had the opportunity to make words, and it was clear that the thing was a fish rather than a bird.

It's sodium, but it's not sodium, but it's still sodium after all.

Mr. Mu personally wrote this newly created word, and felt that it would not be long before there would be more such words, which was really interesting and full of expectations.

"Okay, kids, now that sodium has been made, then metals like lime and potash will also be made, and this method is right, as long as the speculation is right."

"These new things are to be discovered, but they are better than the warmer and required vessels that were first needed, but as long as there is a direction, it is always possible."

"But in my opinion, there is one more important thing to do than the discovery of these new metals. Since water is a combination of hydrogen and yang, and since sodium is a metal, and since your junior brother speculates that the positive of this thing is stronger than hydrogen, then the reaction with water is so violent that it should take away the hydrogen in the water. ”

"So, what exactly is the caustic soda generated? Is it a combination of sodium and yang? Or is it a combination of sodium, yang and hydrogen? That is, what exactly is caustic soda? Sodium takes away a hydrogen? Or two hydrogens? Once this answer is solved, many things will be completely different. ”

"You can think about this problem carefully, and according to the method of induction, deduction and experimentation that your junior brother said, come up with a logically verifiable experiment to prove what a base is."

"If there were a balance that was accurate enough, it wouldn't be a problem, but now that there isn't, then you need to use your brains."

"It's important to think about it."

The disciples agreed, thinking in their hearts that this was really the case. If there was a balance that could weigh one hundredth, many problems could be solved.

It's just that there was no such detailed demand before, and no one thought about making such a balance. It would take a good watchmaker, a spring, a scale, or a locksmith to accomplish such a very delicate object, and the people in the room had a vague feeling that in the future many disciplines would be linked together and become a system from which no one could be separated, rather than separate branches with few connections, as in the past.

The days of only observing with the naked eye, smelling with the nose, and tasting with the mouth seem to be over.

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Just after the New Year, there is not a lot of new atmosphere, it is like a new reincarnation, artificially prescribed a new beginning in the endless, but it is only a part of the cycle of life.

The new summer of the capital city is still the same as it was, everyone has their own life, and they are used to everything.

On the first day of the busy day after the New Year, a shocking news broke out in a certain circle in the school palace, and the first words of the people in the circle when they met were probably greetings, but after the greetings, they always went around to that news.

"Have you heard? Lao Mu and his disciples came up with a new kind of metal, which came out of salt...... In other words, what we used to think was wrong. ”

"Where haven't you heard? I heard that Lao Mu and those disciples have not passed the New Year, and they have been busy with this matter. That's a big deal. What happened last year? First the phosphorus was extracted, and then the metal in the salt was extracted. ”

"Are you mistaken? How could it be metal? How can the salt we eat contain a metal? ”

"I can't be wrong, I wouldn't believe it if someone else made it. But this old man ...... Will he fake? Not to mention cheating, even if it has not been verified step by step, it is impossible for him to let the news come out. ”

"That is to say...... Was his newly recruited disciple's inference correct? Quicklime may not be an indivisible thing either? It's just that the conditions haven't been met, so we can't get it out? Is this world really made up of different particles as he said, and these particles are recombined to become new things, without any loss of their original properties? ”

This discussion continued for two days, until the participants received a detailed report of the experiment and an invitation to watch it.

When they went to Mr. Mu's laboratory, they found that there were already a lot of people waiting here. The people standing in this room are considered to be the characters who have come out of the system of naturalism and chemistry in the entire school palace, and they all know each other, and they were finally connected by Mr. Mu and walked into this room together.

They were both shocked and wanted to see with their own eyes the kind of magical metal that Mr. Mu said, the kind of shock that completely shattered what had been previously believed to be the truth.

The experiment was repeated perfectly, and the congratulations were forgotten in a series of shocks, and then they were invited to watch the white phosphorus and the magical match that burns with a single wipe.

Facts do not change the truth, but they do change the truth that is mistaken for the truth. When the facts are in front of them, these people who have evaluated Chen Jian's articles have to make a choice, a very important choice.

Now that the young man's speculation had been verified in some places, although Mr. Mu, who invited them to watch, said nothing, those who had read the various articles submitted by Jian Chen understood that the meaning of those articles needed to be re-evaluated.

The discovery of metals in salt was a very important event, and in previous years it could have been the first issue of the pamphlet, and it would have been the most significant discovery in decades.

But now it was different, and it was the little-known young man's article that was more important than the new metal.

And apparently, the timing of the discovery of the metal was too strange, as if it had been specifically designed to corroborate some of the speculations in the young man's article.

These people believed that it must have been the young man's idea that would have led to such a rapid and significant discovery.

Prior to this, there had been too much debate about what kind of system was between the redivisible and the indivisible, and there were countless speculations about what was the basis for building matter, and there would naturally be a mainstream.

Based on the previous mainstream perception, some of the young man's speculations were clearly attributed to hubris.

And in the face of today's facts, these arrogances have turned into absolute confidence in the system they speculate. Self-confidence and arrogance are only one step away, and once they are crossed, they are completely different.

While everyone was thinking, an old man spoke: "Lao Mu has accepted a good disciple, let's take a second look at the young man's speculations...... At the end, I'm afraid it's inappropriate. ”

"But...... With so many discoveries nowadays, including the phosphorus discovered by the young man and the new metal discovered by the disciples of the old wood, these two pieces alone are enough to fill a book. ”

"Simple. Thickened, supplemented, not a word changed, published in full! It's a fishing net, and even this new metal that we see today from salt is nothing more than a golden scale. ”