my magic industry

Chapter 111 About Chemical Industry
"Naturalist? Can studying these things be called a scholar?"

Hearing Xia Lin's solemn invitation, Captain Nick showed a heart-wrenching expression, but he said a little unconfidently about Xia Lin's name as a naturalist who seemed to be exaggerating.

"Of course it can be called! In my opinion, there are only two things that need scholars to study, one is the humanities, and the other is the natural sciences.

Among them, the humanities are the sciences that study everything related to people.

For example, literature is the study of language and characters, making language and characters more suitable for the needs of social development; history is the study of human history, from which we can find the law of social development and explore a better human social structure; the study of art is the law of human aesthetics, It enriches people's minds and creates a better environment.

The natural sciences are different from the humanities. What they study is not people, but the world and nature. For example, the new species of animals, plants and various minerals you recorded during your voyage, the ocean currents and geographical conditions you encountered belonged to fields of natural science research.

Studying these things can also be called a scholar. The knowledge you get from your research can provide a foundation for us to understand and change the world in my opinion! "

Xia Lin said with certainty.

"Humanities...Natural science? It's an interesting statement, but you are the first person who thinks that the results of my voyage are useful, not to mention that you are willing to provide me with such a huge amount of funds. In this case, I am willing to accept Support from the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce!"

Captain Nick did not expect that his hobbies would be raised by Xia Lin to such a height related to changing society and the world. Although he thought that his interests and career were not worthy of Xia Lin's praise, he finally nodded. , decided to accept funding from the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce.

Twenty gold lunettes per month, excluding the money for maintaining the Thorn Bird, the salaries of the crew, and the supplies needed for the voyage, he can still have a lot of gold lunettes left over. Facing such a benefactor , Captain Nick naturally wants to seize this opportunity.

"That's really great! Then let's draw up the contract and sign it now! After the contract is signed, I will send someone to receive your logbook soon!"

Xia Lin is also very happy to establish a sponsorship relationship with Captain Nick, a naturalist in the Middle Ages, who can solve many raw material problems he will encounter in industrial production.

After Xia Lin looked at the three maps and charts, he found that these minerals were located on some unpopulated islands, which meant that he could obtain the ownership of these islands from the empire at a low price, and then Then develop slowly.

Although the development of these inaccessible islands requires a lot of initial investment, it is the most suitable option for the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce. However, after considering this, he has to prepare to establish a shipping company and purchase several ships suitable for long-distance transportation. vessel.

Or build another shipyard by yourself, recruit a group of veteran shipwrights, and try to develop a faster ship model. At that time, install a few cannons on it, and that will be the prototype of the navy.

After signing the sponsorship contract with Captain Nick, Xia Lin gave him an urgent task. After the logbook he had accumulated over the years was handed over, he would sail to the graphite mine to dig some graphite ore and bring it back.

Graphite is a good thing. Xialin's electric arc furnace still uses fine gold electrodes. After every day of production, it must be closely guarded like machine tool factories and machining factories, so as not to be stolen from the fine gold.

If graphite is available, graphite electrodes can be obtained by simple grinding, purification and pressing.

In the second phase of the Xinglan Industrial Park construction plan, Xia Lin originally planned to build an electrolysis plant and start building the chlor-alkali industry.

In the chemical system, three acids and two alkalis are the most important four-corner puzzle and the center puzzle. Among them, caustic soda and soda ash charlin have been produced by local methods, nitric acid can be produced by saltpeter reaction, and sulfuric acid can also be produced by simple dry distillation of bile alum. .

It's just that Xia Lin doesn't have a suitable ceramic or glass acid-resistant container to make a reactor, and sealing is also a big problem. For the sake of his own and the workers' teeth, Xia Lin has no plans to start these projects for the time being.

Only hydrochloric acid, if it is not produced by electrolysis, can only be reacted with salt and concentrated sulfuric acid. This method is laborious and thankless, so the electrolysis plant has always been a matter that Xia Lin attaches great importance to.

After the production of graphite electrodes with graphite, this problem will no longer be a problem, and with the technology that can be lit after the chlor-alkali industry and three acids and two alkalis, Xia Lin can't help but smile when he thinks about it.

The products of electrolysis of saturated salt water include hydrogen, chlorine, and sodium hydroxide. The reaction of hydrogen and chlorine can produce hydrogen chloride, which can be dilute hydrochloric acid when it is put into water. In addition, calcium hypochlorite can be obtained when waste gas enters slaked lime, which is a disinfection product such as bleaching powder. It is good news for the new army that is about to be established.

Chlorine gas is also the simplest poisonous gas. If there are suitable containers and sealing means, it is also a good choice to make some chlorine gas bombs, but in this way, the soldiers have to be equipped with gas masks, so they have to order activated carbon. ...

After much deliberation, Xia Lin found that her thoughts had drifted too far, so she quickly restrained her mind and went back to the research institute to prepare for the recruiting of new researchers.

The newly built Carl Institute is designed to accommodate a total of 200 researchers, security personnel, and cleaning and maintenance personnel.

Thinking about it this way, there aren't enough people in the research institute at the moment. We can produce a few more sets of papers for the first-year students of the Royal Academy of Magic to do, and recruit suitable people.

It's just that the first-year students have just entered school not long ago, and I'm afraid they are only able to release their spiritual power at the moment. They don't have their own magic power, and they can't conduct research on one-ring spells. The limitations are still a bit big.

Thinking about it this way, Xia Lin felt that there were only more than 100 sergeant students in each grade of the Royal Academy of Magic, which was still a little too small. It seemed that he had to mention the matter of expanding the enrollment scale of the Academy of Magic with Dean Manan.

With cheap paper, the training cost of mages has been greatly reduced. A first-ring mage who originally needed about ten jinlunds to be trained in three years may be able to be trained with four or five jinlunds now.

According to Xia Lin's estimate, the Karl Research Institute only needs to pay two hundred gold lunettes per year, entrusting the academy to train students in a way similar to the northern military. Should be enough to get enough fellows.

These students can also be called graduate students. After graduation, they are the students of the researcher.

(End of this chapter)