Chapter 9 The Birth of Ethanol
Orlando School of Magic, Building 8, in the conference room, the three deans are discussing a big matter.
Last night, the three of them sent away Mr. Member, the Magic Council, and the academy sent someone to clean up the councilor's room, but when the cleaner cleaned up, they found a document, and they discussed the contents of the document left by the councilor.
On the table, the document was placed in front of the Grand Dean, and the blue Arcane Medal was clearly visible on the document, which was the exclusive medal of the Magical Council, and only the most important information would have this mark. On the information, there is a row of large letters under the blue Arcane Medal, and I saw that it reads: Report on the Establishment of the Graduate School Standings.
This document was written by the Archons of the Magical Council, in order to rank the academy more fairly, and also to completely eliminate the occurrence of things like the buying and selling of points. For the Magic Council, there are naturally great benefits to setting up this standing, but for the Orlando School of Magic, this is no less than a disaster, if they don't rely on points trading, I'm afraid they won't be able to survive next year and will be dropped.
"Mondo, Ferlando, you haven't spoken for a long time, given you so much time, you should talk about what to do!" The three of them had read the documents last night, and they came to the meeting today to discuss future plans, and the dean saw that the two of them were already a little impatient when they pretended to be deaf and dumb, and slapped the table with one hand.
"Dean, I haven't thought of any ideas yet, let's let Dean Ferlando talk about his plan first!" Dean Mondo is usually very conservative, and it is already good that the academy will not go downhill in his hands, and after listening to the words of the Dean, he doesn't know what to do.
Looking at the Dean and Mondo, Dean Ferlando also knew that it would not work without saying a few words, so he opened his mouth hard: "Dean, this score list was set up together with the Alchemy Guild, and the thesis scores of non-elemental magic majors have been greatly increased, I think the academy should tilt its teaching resources towards non-elemental magic majors, and secondly, the news of this scoreboard has not yet come out of the council, and I think this matter should be considered in the long run." ”
After hearing this, the Grand Dean also heard the implication of these words, and said: "Dean Mondo, in the past, non-elemental magic majors could not call papers, and Ferlando and I both understood it very well, and now the Alchemy Guild has also joined the points system of the Magic Council, and in the future, the Alchemy Department should also take up the beam!"
"Whew. Dean Mondo exhaled deeply.
"Dean, of course I agree with what Ferlandor said, and the non-elemental magic major will not disappoint you in the future. Mondo said this and nodded.
"Well, since that's the case, then it's decided. Perhaps this is also an opportunity for us at Orlando School of Magic. The dean looked at the two and adjourned the meeting.
At the end of the meeting, the three of them also left.
By the time the three of them had dismissed, in the hotel, Victor had woken up and taken a nap, and he was in good spirits. The task was selected in the morning, he hadn't experimented yet, and after thinking about it, he was going to go to the Alchemy Guild.
In the morning, Victor finally chose the "ethanol potion", which would be wrong, he didn't dare to take out the **, just enough to take the ethanol first.
The Alchemy Guild has rented alchemist laboratories to serve, and in order to take the "ethanol potion" to Master Charles for evaluation as soon as possible, Victor didn't bother to go back to school for experiments.
Rushing all the way to the Alchemy Guild, Victor went directly to Master Charles.
There was a knock on the door, and Master Charles himself opened it. Seeing that it was Victor outside, Master Charles beckoned him into the declaration room with some doubts.
"Master, take the liberty of excuse me, I would like to rent a laboratory in the Alchemy Guild, and I would like to try out a new potion. Victor entered Master Charles's laboratory, bowed, and spoke.
Master Charles didn't expect that Victor had come to rent the laboratory, and after hearing his words, Master Charles was surprised: "Victor, have you found what you are looking for from these three books?"
Taking a deep breath, Victor put the three books on the table, he pulled out a piece of paper from his waist, and said, "Master, it's not the potion I found from these three books, the potion I want to make this time is an idea I had a long time ago. ”
Listening to Victor's words, Master Charles also breathed a sigh of relief, just now he thought in his heart that if Victor could research a new potion in half a day, then he would really shout "monster".
"You don't have to go to rent, you can use my laboratory!" It was very interesting for Master Charles to witness the experiment of a new potion.
Seeing that Master Charles was so polite, Victor smiled a little embarrassedly, thanked Master Charles, and he was ready to experiment here.
Finding the starch in the laboratory, Victor began the first step of experimentation, adding an appropriate amount of water to the starch to gelatinize the starch, which is the first step in making ethanol.
Looking at Vidor's experiments, Master Charles nodded, he has been an alchemist for thirty years, and it is the first time he has seen a potion with starch, which is an innovation, and he feels that Vidor is still very imaginative.
After stirring well, Vidot adds amylase to the gelatinized starch, which is the second step.
Because starch is a polysaccharide, maltose is a disaccharide, glucose is a monosaccharide, and the hydrolysis of enzymes has specificity, different enzymes catalyze the hydrolysis of different substances, and the conversion of sugar is polysaccharides, disaccharides, and monosaccharides, so Viduo stops after adding amylase, and it takes a long time for hydrolysis to take a long time.
Seeing that Victor had stopped, Master Charles brought a new potion audit form from his desk, and he was already preparing to fill in this thing for Victor in advance.
"Tell me about your new potion, Victor!" said Master Charles, sitting in his chair, drawing a quill from his ink bottle.
"Master, I call this potion: an alcohol potion. Characteristics: flammable, volatile, pharmacological effects: disinfection ・・・・・・" Wei Duo said in detail, and said more than 1,000 words.
Master Charles filled a page and didn't want to write, put down his pen, and urged Victor to see the half-finished potion.
Add the yeast to the beaker, which is the third step. Seeing Victor add yeast, Master Charles seemed to understand.
"Victor, do you want to purify the materials here?" asked Master Charles, looking at the alcohol lamp and distillation bottle that had been prepared.
Seeing that Master Charles had guessed, Victor nodded.
"Victor, if it's flammable, it's impossible to use it as a disinfectant. If it's used as fuel, the cost of this is too high, and I can only rate you a mid-level potion at most. Master Charles poured two cups of tea, tasted the tea, and shook his head, he had thought that Victor was going to surprise him again!
Listening to Master Charles's words, Victor just smiled. It's hard for him to say what this thing does, after all, it's still a little different from Earth.
After the yeast fermentation was complete, Victor poured the fermented material into the distillation flask and began to purify. This is the final step.
A drop of distillate appeared, but Victor's face did not show half a bit of joy, he smelled this smell and remembered, he forgot a very important thing, a faint taste, this is the taste of liquor, this distillate is not ethanol.
Amylase and yeast were both inquired about by Victor before he came, so he chose to make ethanol. But there was still one thing missing, and he couldn't guarantee that he could make ethanol.
"Master Charles, do you have a white powder here? What do you say? Victor described the quicklime in the simplest language possible.
Seeing that Vido was a little anxious, Master Charles pointed and said, "There is white stone powder in counter 22, which should be what you want." ”
Following the direction of Master Charles' finger, Victor looked over and saw that the counter was indeed lime. With a bit of joy and joy, Victor took the lime over.
After all the distillation was complete, Victor added quicklime to the extract. Swapping for a new flask, he began the real final step of the experiment. There are two kinds of distillation bottles, one and two tubes, this time Viduo chose two tubes, and the double tubes are heated and refluxed, which can make the water in the alcohol react with calcium oxide to generate non-volatile calcium hydroxide to remove water. Then distill, so that the result is ethanol.
A single tube causes both ethanol and water to evaporate at the same time, which does not help Victor well in his experiments. After repeated purification, what Victor wanted was finally completed.
"Master Charles, it's done. "After completing the ethanol potion, Victor took it directly to Master Charles.