Lost Chapter 89、Where are the resources
Even if you haven't seen mine warfare, so many travel texts, so many authors have written about the recipe for gunpowder configuration, even if you can't match Nobel explosives, it shouldn't be difficult to match a black powder that can be used by Napoleon's cannons, right?
For such a question, we Fei Ge just want to say one thing: Those who traveled through ancient times and casually turned on the gunpowder golden finger, to put it mildly, are all ...... Scumbag!
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It's just because we Fei Ge knows another thing: until five hundred years later, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty officially issued the "Arsenal Secrets" manual of the national military industrial unit, and the conclusion on the saltpeter preparation process is still: with the current existing process conditions, it cannot be further purified!
Before the Ming Dynasty, ancient Chinese books made a rather regrettable mistake in this matter.
The ancients regarded sodium sulfate decahydrate and potassium nitrate as the same thing. Miscanthus nitrate, which can be used as medicine, is sodium sulfate decahydrate. There's no nitrate, your sister's explosion, this thing, can't explode.
Potassium nitrate, fire nitrate, or red nitrate, this is the nitrate used for burst gunpowder.
However, the shape of these two things after crystallization is the same, and they are both crystals with white edges. As thin as a needle, it is called miscanthus salt. If you look closely under the magnifying glass, it looks like a crystal prism that has shrunk N times, and it is also very similar to a horse's teeth, so it is called horse tooth nitrate.
The Great Song Dynasty completely regarded miscanthus and fire as two different forms of the same thing.
The Great Song Dynasty Chongdao, Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments, and the two instruments are divided into yin and yang. Therefore, miscanthus nitrate is also divided into water miscanthus nitrate and fire miscanthus nitrate. Gunpowder is a thing that will be very powerful if it is played well, and it seems that Zhao Ji was passed through such a major scientific and technological clue by the human drama in advance. That's why the Great Song Dynasty Shenxiao Palace system has worked so hard to focus on the research of the Liangyi Yin and Yang Five Elements Theory.
It's a pity that the tone was set in the wrong direction, and the result was doomed to failure. Sodium sulfate and potassium nitrate are two different things entirely. According to the same kind of miscanthus nitrate divided into water and fire attributes to study, it is doomed to be fruitless.
During the Ming Dynasty, Western missionaries brought with them a large number of new postures about the New World. So Da Ming's vision is slightly wider than that of Da Song. The Ming Dynasty at least already knew that this was not one type of nitrate, but four. I even know that they have to be analyzed and purified separately! Pity! Just want to get it! There's no way to do it!
This little secret that only science and engineering dogs and chemical dogs will know, the liberal arts man must not know. In fact, liberal arts men like to buy ancient books the most...... Okay! Before the Ming Dynasty, the ancient books that recorded the secret recipe of saltpeter were all wrong! Therefore, the more serious the liberal arts man is about archaeology, the more he will make such a big mistake on the issue of gunpowder! Woohoo lament, through the men, still feasting.
Kuai Fei can now roughly guess why he was imprisoned in cell 132. The crossing criminals who were identified as liars and fools by the Shenxiao Palace Chemical Research Institute before have probably been beheaded by Lao Fan for the crime of deception and falsehood!
In fact, this is not just the Ming Dynasty in the Wanli era, China can't do it! At that time, the European powers that had already dominated the whole of North and South America, whether it was England, the guardian of the northern border, Spain, the guardian of the whole territory of the New World, or the Dutch, the chairman of the Seven Seas Chamber of Commerce, could not do it!
According to the plot of mine warfare, if you collect the white miscanthus naturally condensed on the root of the toilet wall, the composition of this thing is actually 1.5% potassium nitrate, 10% sodium sulfate, 83% silica content of soil and sand, and the rest of the content is calcium nitrate and sodium chloride.
This data is the final data obtained by the Ming Dynasty chemists on the statistics and investigation of professional "nitrate households" in Kaifeng and Hebei. Of course, during the Ming Dynasty, potassium nitrate, sodium sulfate, calcium nitrate and sodium chloride used other ancient names: flame nitrate, miscanthus nitrate, fossil nitrate, and salt nitrate.
Liberal arts travel through life, and there are even people who use salt brine from seaside salt farms to make explosives! Can you laugh at this cold joke? Anyway, Lord Deng Shichang definitely won't be able to laugh! Salt brine is salt nitrate, which is the most inert among all kinds of saltpeter. Of course, in almost all the ancient books before the Ming Dynasty, it is unanimously believed that this thing is also miscanthus salt, and it can also be used to make gunpowder! Such a wrong recipe and gunpowder can make Deng Shichang angry to death a hundred times!
(Tang Shichang: Made!) Fang Boqian, did you mix sand in the cannonballs you gave me again! )
Miscanthus nitrate and salt nitrate, mixed in fire nitrate, are tantamount to mixing sand in explosives. But all the wise men of the world, before 18XX, could not find a reliable way to separate them. Once successfully separated and refined, the Armstrong Spin Cannon and Krupp Cannon, as well as the world's first Dreadnought-class steel ship, are almost ready to make their debut.
That is to say, the finished product obtained by hydrolysis, evaporation and drying, and secondary crystallization and refining can only remove 83% of the insoluble silicate solids. The resulting product will be 8-10% potassium nitrate, 40-50% sodium sulfate, and the rest will be calcium nitrate and sodium chloride.
Can the gunpowder made from this thing explode?
The nitrate content of Love Explosion is only 10%! It is mixed with ninety percent of sodium sulfate decahydrate, which does not like to explode, as well as calcium nitrate and sodium chloride.
The purity is only 10%, and the rest is all impurities, inferior gunpowder, can it be fried? Fruit wine with only 10% alcohol content, will you get drunk when you drink it?
All right! To be fair, beer and fruit wine with 10% alcohol will still get drunk if you drink too much. Therefore, this slag powder with a purity of 10% can actually still be fried. It's just that it blew up like a loud fart. Actually, this is a firecracker! The big firecrackers were thrown accurately, and they could really blow up the eyes of the cows.
If this inferior gunpowder is to be used to stuff the cannon, it is actually not bad, at least it is not so easy to blow up. It's just that the kinetic energy ejected by this solid core projectile is a bit choking. Napoleon's cannon hit a dense phalanx, which could burn seven or eight people at a time, and the first cute battle case in history was that after a solid bullet killed a general, it jumped up on the ground and killed a marshal.
In other words, it is 10% pure gunpowder! It can also beat the marshals and generals to the point that their stomachs hurt. If you coincidentally, you can theoretically beat Nelson into a one-eyed dragon!
What the Chinese invented is actually just black powder that is not easy to explode!
(Barely able to fry, the output Joules are slightly worse).
More suitable for firecrackers, not too suitable for cannons.
But this is not the fault of the ancients!
Fan Zhongyan's family has done their best!
The problem encountered by the Chinese is that there is no high-purity saltpeter mine! Even Fan Zhongyan's baby son who got at the age of sixty simply changed his name to a pure, how else can you demand these ancient great men who are loyal to the country.
Why did Genghis Khan play trebuchet all his life? Didn't toss out the artillery? His sons fought all the way to Moscow, and to Odessa, to the towering Caucasus, and to half of the Danube.
The road is long, and the Han paper with horse poles is looking around, but in the end they can't find a good saltpeter mine!
Why did the Europeans take the lead in playing arquebuses from the Age of Discovery?
Why did the roar of Napoleon's cannons shake the whole of Europe long before Nobel was born?
Because the perfect saltpeter mine with the highest natural purity in the world, in Chile! Chile, a place where warlords and gangsters run rampant, produces saltpeter mines that are born with 90% chemical purity! By the end of the twentieth century and the twenty-first century, all the science and engineering slags who had been exposed to inorganic chemistry knew that human beings on the earth had disdained to purify saltpeter, and they were directly imported from Chilean saltpeter mines. The combined cost of international maritime trade and tariffs is in fact lower than the cost of direct nitrate refining by countries in the world.
Don't ask where Chile is! Anyway, that place is a bit far away, and the Great Song Navy can't get through it for the time being.
In fact, the Great Song Dynasty maritime merchants were very strong, and they had extremely close contacts with the Arab navigator Aladdin.
However, having been to Chile is not the same as occupying Chile. Even if you really occupy the whole territory of Chile, it is useless. The Peru and the Andes Mountains, the terrain is so majestic and precipitous. When you go to Chile, you have to build roads first, and maybe you have to build a few tunnels through the mountains...... Then you have to conquer Argentina on the plains of La Brata and open up the transportation line from the mountains to the seaport.
To defend the gunpowder transport line that runs through Argentina and Brazil, you'll have to engage in a protracted war of mopping and counter-sweeping against Che Guevara's soul-possessed Latin American guerrillas.
(How does it feel like the little devil did to us back then?) The little devil in order to bring home the bananas of Southeast Asia, oh, not bananas, but rubber. The railway artery of the little devil, it was sneak attacked by us along the Eighth Road. )
Next, on the eve of the outbreak of the French Revolution, one of France's finest tailors wanted to use new materials from the New World to dye the most beautiful yellow 0-color new dye for Louis XVI's famous queen Habsburg Lorraine Special Love Lace Marie. In the process of trying this new dye, the French tailor uncle who possessed the spirit of Lavoisier and Ampere's right hand soul accidentally refined true potassium nitrate with a chemical purity of 99.97%! All of a sudden, the tailor's shop at Versailles, France, was reduced to ruins and a pile of charred corpses.
Immediately afterwards, Louis XVI and Les Marie, who led the fashion trend in Paris, were brazenly stormed by the angry petty-bourgeois revolutionary gangsters. King Louis was hanged on the gallows of the French people. and used a rusty bloody guillotine machine to brutally cut off Queen Lace Marie's beautiful little head.
At this time, the great king of the world's dwarves, the great mathematician Napoleon Cannon, rose strongly!
The thing that blew up Queen Lace Marie's court tailor caused the great dwarf to ponder. Although Napoleon was not a chemist, he was a master of analytic geometry using logarithmic functions to calculate ballistic trajectories, and he was very scientifically minded. The great mathematician of France, the advocate and forerunner of Artilleryism, under Napoleon Cannon Bonaparte, at this time there happened to be a senior palace scholar, the famous Lavoisier!
Many of my classmates must not have remembered this Lavoisier teacher. A wordy ...... (Students who have excellent memory and have never forgotten about Teacher La, please skip this paragraph automatically). This senior palace scholar probably has it in the junior high school textbook. In the chemistry laboratory of the high school, the portrait of this Lavoisier scholar is basically pasted on the wall, and this is the Mannes of chemistry!
In short, it wasn't until Lavoisier's time that this thing began to surface, and the Great Song Dynasty wanted to get it out in advance? Just kidding!
This thing, actually, became famous later, and it was called bitter acid. The most powerful bomb in the history of inorganic chemistry! Science and engineering crossing dogs that traveled to World War II generally used this picric acid to make cannonballs. That's sour! It's really not blown, it's much more powerful than the Nobel Prize. This bitter sour taste is more violent than the Nobel family's goods, and the excitement.
Nobel dynamite is actually much less powerful than picric acid. The Swedish Monopoly actually added diatomaceous earth to slow down the power of this explosive, so that it was not so easy to kill his own people, which increased its practicality. The crossing dog can completely ignore the BUG problem of accidentally blowing up its own people. In real history, except for the little devils, no one wants to practice this bitter acid bomb that blows up their own people at every turn. But across the realm, this can actually be had. Bombing the enemy 3,000 and blowing up 800 by yourself can theoretically still win the whole world!
All this is what happened between 178X-18XX. This was the prelude to the Industrial Revolution, a necessary prelude to the beginning of the Nobel and dreadnought eras.
Therefore, in the 1110s AD, it was impossible for the Great Song Dynasty to toss this thing in advance!
Wu Dalang has never worked hard in his studies, otherwise he would not have gone to a vocational skills school to learn to be a chef. As for Lavoisier's name, Fei Ge only heard from the Chinese teacher. The specific content has long been returned to the representative of the Sports Division. Hey? Shouldn't Lavoisier's name be taught in chemistry class? That's right! In chemistry class, our Fei Ge basically stilted class, and when he didn't have stilt class, he also listened to it and fell asleep.
If you don't believe it, you will also sit in on chemistry class, and you will definitely fall asleep listening to it like our Phineas. The content of those molecular formulas and equations really comes with an extremely powerful hypnotic buff. If you didn't fall asleep in middle school chemistry class, you were ruthless, would you dare to try it again in the inorganic chemistry class of the second year of the University of Chemical Technology?
Teacher Lavoisier's realm, Fei Ge can't imitate it at all!
Fairy tales are all lies! The authors who play with the explosive gunpowder formula are actually all liberal arts students who don't know what advanced chemistry is!
"Let go of that Lori" seems to be a little different? The League of Witches seems to have a sister paper that can be purified directly with a magic golden finger, which is quite unreasonable. I have to say that the wit of the second purpose is really high. He doesn't tell you any chemical formulas, anyway, this witch directly achieved the purification effect. The protagonist also can't understand how the witch did this. This eliminates the need for a basket of reaction formulas and hydration ionogen data.
Thinking of this, Wu Dalang turned his face meaningfully, and glanced at the third sister of Kimchi very carefully. This stick girl? Could it be ...... She happens to be a supernatural witch who specializes in chemical purification?
Think about it, what reason does this little old fan have to take a stick girl as the most relied on personal Xiaomi and take it with him at any time?
Why is that? What a coincidence! Lao Fan's name is pure! Of course, he is especially fond of genius girls who are good at chemical purification. As long as she has such a talent and specialization, it doesn't matter if she comes from Changbai Mountain or Daxinganling. Even if she's an Eskimo from Greenland, that's okay. Such useful talents, even if they are thousands of miles away, will be grasped and thought to be used by me!
If the other party is really such a talent, with the great family wisdom inherited from his father, Xiao Lao Fan must hold her tightly in the palm of his hand.
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