Using the organic solvent methanol, the iodine-like elements that have been evaporated and condensed are extracted and separated, and then only the iodine-like elements need to be extracted from the solution, and everything is fine.

How to say that "there is a specialization in the art industry", Bierman's next operation dazzled the five physicists present and the laymen of chemistry.

Anyway, after a long time, a small amount of black powdery crystals finally appeared in the glass.

"If nothing else, this should be something that has just been extracted from that bismuth metal target, which may be the eighty-fifth iodine-like element."

Professor Bierman, who had been busy for a long time before he had extracted such a little something, said to everyone present with some pride.

"Take pictures! Take a picture! ”

It was Chen Muwu who was the first to react, although the sublimation temperature of iodine is at least a few hundred degrees Celsius, but it is also an unstable radioactive element, which has been decaying constantly.

Decay also releases heat and facilitates the evaporation of iodine-like elements.

If you don't take pictures to record the effects, there may be no more solids in the glass dish within a few hours, and the iodine-like elements decay and sublimate into gas exchange into the air.

The black-and-white photographs of the not high-resolution iodine-like samples can only be said to be better than nothing, and they can be regarded as a record of a new substance made using a cyclotron in the laboratory of the Prince of Stockholm College.

However, whether this new substance is the No. 85 iodine element still needs to be further tested.

But Professor Bierman patted his chest with a confident expression.

Because he has just used the method of sublimation and re-coagulation to extract iodine-like from the product mixture, compared with the operation of separating iodine from impurities, it cannot be said that it is not at all similar, but it can also be said to be completely consistent.

The physicochemical properties are similar to iodine, and the probable atomic number is around element 85.

So what can this kind of thing they make not be a halogen element of group VII.A?

After listening to Chen Muwu's analysis and learning that this element is likely to evaporate quickly, Bierman quickly seized the time to do several specific experiments to confirm that the new product iodine-like does have the properties of halogen elements.

All kinds of experiments show that the people in the laboratory have indeed created a new element on the cyclotron.

But only Bierman, an authority on chemistry, thinks otherwise.

There was some worry on his face: "Dr. Chen, I advise you not to rejoice too soon.

"You use accelerated alpha particles to bombard bismuth metal targets, thus producing Element 85. From my preliminary point of view, this should be an indisputable fact, and it would never have been possible to exhibit the properties of halogen elements if it were not for the new halogen elements.

"But in fact, we chemists do not agree with each other about whether the new substances produced in this way can be considered new substances.

"Dr. Chen, this matter still has something to do with you.

"Last year, at the University of Cambridge, I published a paper on the second isotope of hydrogen, in which the method used is to use an accelerated deuterium atom to attack another deuterium atom fixed on the target, and then obtain the second isotope of hydrogen super-heavy hydrogen.

"You may not have any objection in the physics community, because you have discovered a new atom from a microscopic point of view, unlike any other atom.

"But in the chemistry world, that one of yours has sparked a big discussion.

"It is felt that an element that has not yet been discovered in nature and is synthesized in 'invisible quantities' should not be considered a fully valid element.

"In the past, super-heavy hydrogen, many people thought that it could not be regarded as the second legal isotope of hydrogen.

"And now you've made the 85th element iodine on the cyclotron, and the same problem is that it doesn't find naturally occurring elements in nature, and it's still synthesized in 'invisible quantities'.

In addition to the above two items, there is an additional one about iodine-like elements, which may be resisted by chemists.

"Everyone thinks that all radioactive isotopes are unstable isotopes of some element, and only those that are not radioactive, or isotopes that have a very long half-life, can be called elements.

"Who wouldn't want to admit that a radioactive isotope like this, which can decay rapidly, is as legitimate as a stable isotope."

How come these chemists are more stubborn than the other?

And when there are laymen like Chen Muwu, from a layman's point of view, using a layman's method to cross the professional threshold, after insiders like them challenge them, insiders will be even more stubborn.

To discover new elements and isotopes, we must find a naturally occurring source from nature, and we can't use synthetic synthesis as a means?

If the chemists had always adhered to this concept, they would not have been able to extract element 85 from nature for hundreds of lifetimes, but it would have been possible to extract the second isotope of hydrogen, superheavy hydrogen.

Because iodine-like in nature, the proportion that exists in nature is about one in hundreds of billions of billions, and others don't know how many zeros there are after the decimal point, and it doesn't know how many billions there are.

Super-heavy hydrogen, on the other hand, is slightly better than iodine-like, and super-heavy water containing super-heavy hydrogen is about one billionth of all water in nature.

When people discovered iodine-like and super-heavy hydrogen from nature, they also shot arrows first and then drew targets, and discovered new elements from the bombardment and collision of particle accelerators, and then began to search for them in nature.

If no one knows about the existence of iodine-like and super-heavy hydrogen, there will naturally be no idle people who will wade through mountains and rivers to find things that do not necessarily exist.

Professor Bierman was worried, but Chen Muwu didn't care.

He didn't care if the chemists admitted that he had discovered a new element, all he wanted was for a chemist like Bierman to confirm that he had indeed discovered a new element.

Iodine-like has exhibited chemical properties that are different from those of bismuth (83), polonium (84) and radon (86), and similar to iodine, so it is undoubtedly the fifth halogen.

Thinking of this, Chen Muwu opened his mouth and said, "Professor Bierman, thank you for coming all the way to test this new substance for us from a chemical point of view.

"I would like to ask, would you like to stay in Stockholm for a few more days?

"How about we write a paper together, and the topic of the paper is, of course, about the discovery of new elements?"

Bierman frowned and thought for a while: "Dr. Chen, of course it's okay to write a dissertation, but where do you want to submit it?" As far as I can tell, your paper is likely to be rejected by several of the world's most famous chemistry journals for the same reason I mentioned earlier. ”

Rejection? Doesn't matter.

Chen Muwu even wished that one day even the world's physics journals would reject his manuscript, so that he could justifiably run a "Journal of Prince College" in Stockholm.

Now he still intends to do this, and the papers he writes are not recognized by the chemical community, let alone accepted by chemical journals for publication, which is the best opportunity for Chen Muwu to set up a journal on his own.

"Don't worry, Professor Bierman, I don't plan to contribute to a chemistry journal at all, you chemists are so stubborn, and I hope that one day you will become more innovative.

"I would just like to ask you to help me write the part of the paper on the chemical properties of the new substance, and the rest of the paper on where the new substance came from.

"Please rest assured that you will be paid for this trip to Stockholm."

Bierman really didn't do it for money, he was mainly about advancing science.

However, Bierman couldn't help but ask, "Dr. Chen, where exactly do you plan to publish this paper?" Is it the Proceedings of the Royal Society, or Nature? ”

"Mmmm," Chen Muwu nodded, "I will get in touch with the above two magazines, and if they don't publish papers on them, they will advertise on them."

"As for where you asked me where this paper will be published, we at Prince's College in Stockholm plan to set up an independent Prince's College Bulletin, which will be published in Chinese, Swedish and English."

The title of the journal proposed by Chen Muwu in his answer shocked Bierman no less than he used cyclotrons to produce new elements that humans have never found in nature.

Running a special academic journal, is that just the way it is said?

If it can't be recognized by scientists all over the world, isn't it a kind of useless work that costs people and money?

What then?

However, Bierman thought about it again, Chen Muwu in front of him even dared to establish a school as big as Prince College, so it was really not a big deal to run an affiliated academic journal for Prince College.

Bierman agreed to Chen Muwu's invitation to write an academic paper, thinking that even if the circulation of this "Journal of Prince College" was not high, it would be a big deal to ask other academic journals to reprint it.

Chen Muwu's establishment of an academic journal cannot be said to be a whim, but he has already had relevant plans.

Moreover, at present, Chen Muwu has a weighty paper, not only the discovery of iodine-like elements, but also the next few papers to be published, each of which is heavier than the previous one.

He did not worry at all that he would not be able to make the Journal of the Prince College a resounding name in the world of scientific research in a short period of time.

Writing the paper, Chen Muwu did not do it himself.

He just gave him a rough idea and left the matter of writing the thesis to the other four people.

After all, they were also involved in the construction of the cyclotron and the use of the cyclotron to produce a synthetic element in human history.

Chen Muwu thought about it and decided to split this into two papers.

In this way, the inaugural issue of the Journal of the Prince's College at least looks better in the table of contents.

Bierman's paper on the purification and testing of iodine-like elements was also published separately, so that the Journal of Prince College had three papers at once.

He provided a good environment for the other five to write their papers, and he drove to find Marcus Jr.

Chen Muwu wanted to ask what procedures were required to set up such an academic journal in Sweden.

After all, the right to run a newspaper is not easy to obtain for a country, and Chen Muwu will definitely not do such an illegal thing as running a newspaper privately, and he strives to be a good law-abiding foreigner in Sweden.

Although the words are high-sounding, Chen Muwu's true intention to find Little Marcus is still to hope that he will use the rights of the Wallenberg family behind him to help him get the relevant newspaper procedures of the "Journal of the Prince College" as soon as possible.

After obtaining the formalities, Chen Muwu began to write letters and telegrams to the world in his own name, paying them to publish advertisements in newspapers and magazines for the upcoming issue of the Journal of the Prince's College.

Academic journals such as "Journal of Natural Sciences", "Nature", "Annals of Physics", "Journal of Physics" and other professional academic journals;

The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Manchester Guardian, The New York Times and other most famous newspapers in the world.

All of them published the Journal of Prince College, an academic journal edited by Chen Muwu, which will be published by Prince's College of Stockholm.

I hope that interested readers from all over the world can write to the editorial office to subscribe.

Authors who are interested in submitting academic papers in various disciplines to the Journal of the Chinese Journal are also invited to submit their papers.

It is still relatively rare in the world to receive a manuscript fee for submitting a manuscript to an academic journal.

But as long as Sweden's status in the world academic community can be improved, whether it is the Swedish crown prince or the Wallenberg family, they don't mind paying more money.

Chen Muwu got the newspaper formalities and advertised in the world's major academic journals and popular newspapers, and then he had other things to do.

Chen Muwu would go to the docks in Stockholm almost every day to inquire about any cargo ships that had recently sailed from the Netherlands.

"Huang Tian pays off", he finally returned to the Prince of Stockholm College with the liquid deuterium he had ordered from the low-temperature physics laboratory of Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Chen Muwu thought that while Bierman was still in Sweden, it would be better to simply use the cyclotron to discover the No. 43 element.

It is also in case this chemistry professor, who is quite close to him, will not have to travel back and forth from Copenhagen and Stockholm next time.

He had already made a trip to Uppsala University in advance, from where he borrowed the molybdenum metal he needed.

While everyone else was writing papers, Chen Muwu planned to do the experiment himself.

(End of chapter)