The day's success was so successful that the whole system came together to produce liquid ammonia in the first run. Although the production is quite limited, it is a synthetic ammonia made from atmospheric nitrogen. The synthetic ammonia still leaked a lot, and the stench made the whole island look like a big toilet. Fortunately, Scrooge and they were prepared, and everyone wore gas masks - ammonia not only irritates the nose, but also the eyes. But before putting on the gas mask, Mr. Liebig took a long, deep breath through his nose and said to Scrooge, who was wearing the mask, "Yes, this is the smell!" Then he smiled and put on his mask......

……

In the evening, the radio was playing a series of novels, which was a very attractive program. The average person in this era comes home after a busy day, has dinner, and then basically has no more entertainment. Rich people can go to the box on Broadway to watch a play, but ordinary people, after dark, there is really no entertainment except for the man-making movement.

However, this situation began to change after the advent of wireless radio. At first, these things were only popular among the wealthy, or relatively wealthy, and then gradually became popular among those with a little bit of money, and finally as the power grid gradually entered the living areas of ordinary people, ordinary people gradually began to have radios in their homes.

But even the simplest radio is not very easy for an ordinary working family. So, in the residential areas of some ordinary workers' families, if any of them had a radio, well, at night, the nearby workers would often crowd around their homes to listen to the programs on the radio. And among these programs, the novel series is almost the most popular program among these people.

Now a group of people are gathered around Tom's radio, listening to the stories inside.

"They took another five or six steps, and then Dantès felt them lift him up, one up, the other up, and swing him around." One! The two gravediggers shouted in unison, "Two! Three, let's go! Then Dantès felt himself being thrown into the air, like a wounded bird through the layers of air, and then straight down, at a speed that almost clotted his blood. A heavy object dragged him down, speeding up his descent, but he still felt as if the time of the fall had lasted for a hundred years. Finally, with a terrible thud, he fell into the icy water, and when he fell into the water, he could not help but let out a high-pitched exclamation, but the shout was immediately drowned in the spray.

Dantès was thrown into the sea, a thirty-six-pound iron ball strapped to his feet, dragging him deep into the sea. The sea is the cemetery of Château d'If......"

This is a fragment from The Count of Monte Cristo, and unlike the tried and tested listeners or readers of later generations, they are not very familiar with such a scene, so they will still worry about the protagonists who fall off the cliff. In contrast, if this kind of bridge is read and seen by future generations, the first thought that probably comes to mind will not be whether it will drown or not, but this one falls off the cliff, whether it can get the Northern Shengong plus Lingbo Weibu, or the "Jiuyang True Scripture", or the "Golden Snake Sword Technique" plus a sword inserted in the stone is not bad, well, when the brave young man pulled out the sword inserted in the rock, his fate also changed, when I held the king's hand...... Slowly, slowly, the people of that era would not have made up such a lot of things in their brains, let alone make the knight king with a lot of beard into a cute girl without any discipline.

Although the book "The Count of Monte Cristo" has been written for some years, most of the workers in the United States have not read this book, and the kind of England where all people can skillfully recite Shakespeare probably only exists in the plane of some GZ heads, so hearing this, everyone is still very worried about the fate of Edmeng 61 Dantès, but at this critical moment, well, the show suddenly stopped.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now we are inserting a news break, please don't go away, and come back as soon as the news is over."

"Hell, plug in the news at this time!" Tom grumbled.

"It's just that, it's not news, it's advertising!" More people chimed in.

But radio stations don't hear such complaints, of course, even if they hear them, they don't pay attention, don't insert ads, what do you make money on? Therefore, the radio still decisively began to broadcast the news:

"Earlier today, the University of Cleveland's Dashi Yàn Room completed the world's first chemical synthesis of ammonia. The success of this reality is of great significance to the world. We are honored to invite Professor Liebig, who was in charge of this experiment, and Dr. Kekule, who played a key role in this realization, to tell us about the great significance of this realization......"

If it weren't for the fact that it wasn't over to hear the story, most of the workers wouldn't have had any interest in "synthetic ammonia" or anything. It's just that the worry about the fate of Dantès still makes them stay there and listen to two Germans who should not be very proficient in English to talk about the meaning of synthetic ammonia, and many people are impatient to listen to it.

But for others, this is not the case. Through the airwaves, the news quickly spread throughout the world. The first to react was the scientific community, especially the chemical community. For many years, and even for nearly a hundred years since the significance of nitrogen in the soil for plant growth was confirmed, nitrogen fixation by chemical means has been a dream of chemists, and in the minds of the majority of chemists, this dream is almost similar to the dream of their predecessors, the alchemists, for the dream of smelting gold. Therefore, as soon as such news came out, it immediately caused a sensation in the entire scientific community in the United States and even in Europe. Even in distant Petersburg, the news became the focus of academic attention.

……

Zining, a professor of chemistry at the Petersburg Academy of Medicine and Surgery, walked into the room as usual, and as usual, he hung his coat on the wall, and then turned around, only to see the students staring at him with excited eyes.

"Well, Alyosha, what's wrong? Something on my face? Qi Ning asked suspiciously.

"Professor, you don't know yet? Didn't you read today's newspaper? Alyosha replied.

"What newspaper, what's the news?"

"Professor, the synthetic ammonia of the Americans and the Prussians has succeeded!" Another student, Semyon, replied.

"Where's the newspaper?" Qi Ning asked.

"Here, here!" Alyosha quickly pulled out a newspaper, opened it and handed it to Qi Ning. Qi Ning lowered his head and saw this report:

"Yesterday afternoon, the University of Cleveland announced that with the funding of McDonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company, their research project in cooperation with a number of Prussian universities - chemical synthesis of ammonia has been a complete success, and has already met the conditions for industrial production, and soon, this technology may be put into chemical production...... Professor Liebig and Dr. Kekuler were very helpful about ......"

"Teacher, if you had chosen to stay in Europe, you might have been among them...... Semyon said. Lieutenant Liebig was a protégé of Liebig, who had studied in Liebig's room for many years, and Liebig had always praised Richin's talent and efforts, but in the end, Sevenin returned to Russia, which was relatively closed and backward, and brought back the latest European research methods on organic chemistry to Russia.

"Hehe, that's not necessarily, haven't you noticed that in this report, there is almost no mention of the details of the real yàn?" "You see, here are just a few things that we all already know – the use of hydrogen and nitrogen, conversion with the help of high pressure and high temperature and catalysts," Zining said. These are not very different from the assumptions we talked about before, the questions are how many degrees Celsius is the high temperature, how many atmospheres is the high pressure, and the process flow and catalyst are almost not mentioned at all. Do you know why? ”

"Of course, for the sake of secrecy, you said before when you mentioned synthetic ammonia that this technology is extremely important for agriculture. This means that there will be very large economic benefits behind this. The Americans and Prussians would have kept it a secret. Teacher, you mean they don't invite you to join because they're worried about you leaking secrets? Alyosha asked.

"Maybe. But in any case, at least they confirmed that it is possible to complete the synthesis of ammonia from this direction. Qi Ning replied.

……

The Royal Academy reacted to the news, and almost immediately sent invitations to the University of Cleveland and the universities in Prussia, inviting a series of chemists, including Scrooge, to England for academic exchanges—as long as people arrived in England, even if they were not coerced, they could always get something useful from them. In addition, since the significance of ammonia synthesis is so far-reaching, but unemployment proves that the method of high temperature and pressure plus catalysts is feasible, then the United Kingdom, which is the richest and most advanced in science and technology, will naturally follow suit. Therefore, under the leadership of the British government, led by the University of Cambridge and St. Helens Pharmaceutical Factory, relevant research was started. What, you say patents? In this kind of place related to national security, it doesn't matter what patents he has or not!

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"That's the big project that Scrooge 61 MacDonald mentioned." After listening to the analysis of the market significance of ammonia synthesis technology, Joshua silently thought in his heart, "On the one hand, this thing may double the output of agriculture, and on the other hand, it will also greatly reduce the cost of gunpowder and explosives." So. The money scene for this technology is fantastic. Although Scrooge has been preparing for this for a long time, and it is estimated that he is not short of money now, doesn't he need an agent who can help him sell these things in Europe? Well, I'll have to meet this genius again sometime. ”