Super industrial overlord

Chapter 51 New Optical Glass
"Boss! Don't underestimate the new optical glass I developed. I will briefly introduce its performance. The strength of this glass can already be compared with some high-strength steel, and its hardness has reached 90 or so.

Although it is still not comparable to diamond, it is much stronger than ordinary glass, and its weight is much lighter than ordinary glass, about the same as aluminum alloy.

The most important thing is its high temperature resistance. Ordinary glass begins to soften when the temperature reaches 250 degrees. Even tempered glass is at the limit when it is 600-800 degrees. Of course, there are some high-performance glasses. It can even reach a high temperature of 1600 degrees without melting, but it is not good in other performances, and the weight is even more heavy, dead heavy.

And the glass I developed needs to be softened, so the temperature must be above 1800 degrees, and besides the above performance, the transparency of optical glass is the most important, and the transparency of my glass has reached 99%. , uniform refraction, no stress, and basically no dispersion. " Jia Qing said.

Looking at Zhang Yi's confused face, Jia Qing also knew that he didn't understand, so he said directly to Zhang Yi; "Boss, anyway, you don't understand what I said, so you see, I'll take you directly Just go and see the finished product, and you’ll know.”

After finishing speaking, Jia Qing led Zhang Yi towards his laboratory.

After coming to the laboratory, Zhang Yi first saw the glass shards all over the room. It is obvious that this is his work during this period of time.

After coming to the laboratory, Jia Qing first took out a piece of glass about one meter in length and width and said to Zhang Yi; "Please look, boss, this is the glass I developed. This glass is one meter in length and width, but its thickness is only 2 meter. Three millimeters, but its strength is stronger than those 30-[-]mm glass, even if the big hammer hits it directly, it will not cause damage to this piece of glass."

After speaking, he put the glass directly on the ground, and placed two irregularly shaped iron blocks on both sides of the glass, then picked up a 20-pound sledgehammer, and directly hit the glass hard. When I went down, I heard a "bang", and the big hammer was bounced off, but the glass on the ground was unscathed.

Seeing such a situation, Zhang Yi was also taken aback. You must know that the piece of glass on the ground is only three millimeters!

Under the hammer of this weight, it was unscathed.If it is ordinary glass, it may be broken even if you put a hammer on it, let alone hit it hard, even tempered glass will not work.

Then I saw Jia Qing put down the hammer in his hand, picked up the glass on the ground and hit the concrete floor vigorously, horizontally, vertically, horizontally, and backwards.Until he smashed a hole in the ground, but the piece of glass was still unscathed. In the end, he was not satisfied and knocked directly on the iron block on the ground, but the result was still the same. Instead, the iron block on the ground was knocked out directly. Lots of iron filings.

This kind of behavior directly gave Zhang Yi the most intuitive understanding of this glass. If it is metallic glass, it is fine. After all, the strength of metallic glass is not comparable to that of ordinary crystal glass, but this glass is it. An optical glass, then things are different.

Looking at the glass in front of him, Zhang Yi fell into deep thought. Although Zhang Yi wanted to produce this glass immediately, he was still hesitating because he had no sales channels.

After all, if such glass is used in other ordinary industries, it must be a waste, and if it is used in ordinary industries, the price will not be too high.

You must know that the cost of the glass developed by Jia Qing is much higher than that of ordinary glass. He uses many kinds of rare metal materials in the glass manufacturing process, so ordinary industries must not be able to afford this price.

But so far, the most profitable glass in the glass industry is the glass on high-end products and equipment, such as lenses on various military equipment, aerospace glass, etc. Of course, the glass on these equipment is also high in performance, not just ordinary glass. compared to.

Although in terms of performance, the glass developed by Jia Qing is sufficient, but these high-end industries are not something Zhang Yi can set foot in at present.

After all, the glass in these industries is controlled by some international giants. If Zhang Yi gets involved rashly now, the consequences will definitely be eaten up.

Even with the protection of these red police mining engineers, Zhang Yi has never underestimated the energy of these international giants, which is why Zhang Yi chose an aerodynamic bicycle for his first product.

Originally, Zhang Yi didn't even want to get involved in this special glass for the time being, but now that it has been developed, he can only bite the bullet.

"Don't think about it, it really doesn't work. Let's just build an astronomical telescope first. I don't believe it. No one will buy an astronomical telescope with such glass." Zhang Yi gritted his teeth and said.

After all, compared with others, astronomical telescopes have enough profits, and at the same time, they will not touch the interests of most giants.

Obviously, since there is already a product, Zhang Yi is ready to produce it directly, not to hide it.

After Jia Qing developed this glass, Zhang Yi immediately ordered a new set of small glass production equipment, including glass melting furnace, annealing furnace, polishing equipment, cutting equipment, etc., which directly cost Zhang Yi nearly 200 million yuan. Yuan, you must know that this is only a small set of equipment that can only produce a few tons of glass stock solution every day. If it is replaced by those large and medium-sized production equipment, it will not cost tens of millions, and it is impossible to get it down.

After the arrival of these glass chemical equipment, Zhang Yi still couldn't produce it immediately. After all, what Zhang Yi and the others produced was not ordinary glass, so they had to be modified before they could be produced.

fine!Zhang Yi is fortunate that his factory is a machinery factory. Although the current products are only aerodynamic bicycles, he is still capable of modifying glass production equipment.

Zhang Yi hopes that the modified production equipment and the glass produced can be used directly without needing to be polished like ordinary people make telescope lenses, which is not worthwhile.

What's more, because the strength and hardness of the glass produced by Jia Qing is not comparable to that of ordinary glass, if you want to grind it, then a piece of 100mm glass cannot be ground without several months of grinding.

In fact, the production of astronomical telescopes is not difficult. As long as there are lenses, even ordinary people can make them. The difficulty lies in the grinding of the lenses.

However, ordinary people generally use ordinary glass for grinding lenses, that is, float glass. After all, they have no channels to obtain high-performance optical glass, and the grinding is not professional. Grinding takes a very long time.

If you really want to grind lenses like ordinary people, then don’t produce them at all. He hopes that after production, it can be used directly without re-polishing.

There are three types of commonly used astronomical telescopes, the first is refracting, the second is reflecting, and the last is catadioptric.

(End of this chapter)