Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 306 N60
When Li Xiang was bargaining with Guan Haitong of the management committee of the institute.

The laboratory that was devastated by the bombing was finally cleaned up by a group of researchers.

Since the new equipment has not yet come down, all researchers can only do some theoretical work, or study the pile of junk to see if there is anything.

Yang Gang and others all know that the residue in the reactor is the most likely place to find it.

6 month 8 day.

Today is the second day after the explosion in the laboratory of the Institute of Normal Temperature Superconductors.

Li Xiang and other big bosses are considering how to improve the experiment and discussing the improvement requirements for the experimental equipment.

Other researchers, on the other hand, went their separate ways.

Yang Gang said to Yao Zhaoyi who was at the side: "Why don't you study the residue we cleaned up yesterday?"

Yao Zhaoyi thought about it and there was nothing to do now, so he nodded in agreement.

The two of them came to the experimental product warehouse of the research institute and brought out the things in the explosion laboratory yesterday.

"Other things are of little value. We focus on the residues of the reactor." Yang Gang said while searching for the box of reactor residues.

"The reactor residue? Here." Yao Zhaoyi pointed to the three boxes on the shelf not far away.

[No.: 5761 (reactor residue 1) 2019.6.7]

[No.: 5762 (reactor residue 2) 2019.6.7]

[No.: 5763 (reactor residue 3) 2019.6.7]

Yang Gang quickly took out the three boxes, while Yao Zhaoyi registered with the warehouse manager that they took out the three boxes.

"Let's go." Yao Zhaoyi said holding the warehouse receipt.

The two came to the laboratory with three boxes and prepared the testing equipment.

"Start testing from the first residue." Yang Gang opened the box numbered 5761, and carefully took out a little residue from it.

The residue in this box is less than 3 grams, and he only took out less than one-tenth of it.

And Yao Zhaoyi was operating the instrument.

The two of them worked together in a division of labor, methodically testing and analyzing the material composition in the reactor residue 1.

"... Ordinary nitrogen compounds, and some compounds from the reactor itself..." Yang Gang said while looking at the test report.

And Yao Zhaoyi is recording these data.

Suddenly Yang Gang's words stopped.

"What? Did you find anything?" Yao Zhaoyi raised his head and asked.

"I'm not so sure."

Yang Gang carefully moved the Electric Realm back to its previous position.

Soon spherical molecules appeared on the screen of the monitor.

"What? Carbon 60?" Seeing the structure of this molecule, this was Yang Gang's first reaction.

"Carbon 60? You mean football ene?" Yao Zhaoyi stopped the pen in the record and focused his eyes on the monitor screen.

A spherical molecule appeared in the eyes of the two.

"It's really carbon 60? It's strange." Yao Zhaoyi said doubtfully.

"I am also very puzzled that there is carbon 60 in the residue." Yang Gang was also at a loss.

Yao Zhaoyi continued to observe this molecule, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration: "Gangzi, this thing is not necessarily carbon-60."

"Isn't it carbon 60? Could there be something with an atomic number of 60..." Yang Gang was about to refute, but he stopped when he said something, and then said uncertainly:
"Nitrogen 60?"

Yao Zhao nodded: "In our reactor, there is no raw material for generating carbon 60 at all, not even carbon atoms. How can carbon 60 be generated? It can't be generated out of thin air!"

"What you said makes sense. Even the carbon atoms carried by the reactor itself cannot produce carbon 60 by such a coincidence." Yang Gang agreed with this guess.

"We're guessing here and there, and that's not the way to go. We need to know if it's nitrogen 60 and check the molecular weight."

"Yes, we'll check the molecular weight right away."

"I'm going to prepare the equipment, Gangzi, you continue to test to see if there is no second same molecule."

"no problem."

The two divided into two groups, Yang Gang carefully tested the residue, while Yao Zhaoyi went to prepare the equipment for molecular weight detection.

If it is carbon 60, it is a stable molecule formed simply by combining carbon atoms, with 60 vertices and 32 faces, of which 12 are regular pentagons and 20 are regular hexagons, and its relative molecular mass is about 720.

And if it is nitrogen 60, the relative molecular mass of nitrogen atom is about 14, so its relative molecular mass is about 840.

The structure of nitrogen 60 is the same as that of carbon 60, and its characteristics are also very similar. After carbon 60 was discovered, many scientists gave the predicted structures of nitrogen 60 and silicon 60 through computer simulation.

However, nitrogen 60 and silicon 60 have not been discovered or synthesized, and everyone regards these two things as ideal products.

Yao Zhaoyi prepared the equipment and asked Yang Gang, "The equipment is ready, how is your side?"

"I found three more spherical molecules, which are being extracted." After Yang Gang finished speaking, he held his breath and concentrated on the extraction work.

He couldn't help but be cautious, after all, this thing needs to be counted among the residues, and a careless one may cause the loss of the sample.

When Harvard University was doing research on metal hydrogen, such an oolong appeared. After the paper was written, it was discovered that the sample of metal hydrogen was lost. Is there anything more sad than this?
If someone else develops metal hydrogen in the future and wins the Dynamite Award, it is estimated that this research institute at Harvard University will be so depressed that he vomits blood.

Although Yao Zhaoyi wanted to help, he still held back. At this time, it is not that there are many people who are powerful, but it is more likely that there are many people with mixed hands, and the samples are lost.

In the chilly laboratory, Yang Gang was sweating profusely extracting the only four spherical molecules.

After successfully taking out two of the four molecules, he let out a long breath.

"Fortunately, I managed to extract two of them."

"Quick, I'm already excited."

"Be excited, calm down, and be careful that extreme joy gives rise to sorrow."

The two gently extracted the two spherical molecules and put them into the molecular weight detection equipment. This equipment was developed by Xinghe Precision Instrument Company, which can start to detect molecular weight and atomic weight.

drop by drop...

[... Relative molecular mass: 36... Relative molecular mass: 460...]
Since there were other compounds in the sample, there were a lot of detection data, and the two of them carefully checked each item.

"Yes, as expected." Yao Zhaoyi said, restraining his excitement.

"where?"

"This."

[... Relative molecular mass: 840...]
Soon the two found another piece of test data that was also 840.

"It seems that it is really Nitrogen 60. Unexpectedly, there was a surprise." Yang Gang said happily.

"Let's save these two samples first, and save the residue, and then test the remaining two residues to see if there is any nitrogen 60." Yao Zhaoyi suggested.

Yang Gang nodded: "Yes."

俩人继续检测剩下的两份反应釜残留物，很快他们便在5762号残留物之中发现6个氮60分子，在5763号残留物之中发现3个氮60分子。

After completing the extraction and preservation work, the two came to Li Xiang's office and reported the test report to Li Xiang.

"Nitrogen 60 molecules were found in the reactor residue?" Li Xiang was very surprised by this discovery, and he hurriedly read the test report carefully.

Looking at the detected molecular weight and 13 samples, he had to believe in this unexpected product.

(End of this chapter)