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Chapter 142 Making of Flat Mirror

"No money to buy food?"

Allen was stunned. This was an area he didn't care much about. Because of the appearance of transparent glass, Tomorrow Town monopolized the national glass market, and a large number of variegated glass merchants were forced to jump into the river. A steady stream of wealth entered Allen's pocket every day. , Let Allen think that Tomorrow Town will never be poor again.

"Of course, the iron ore and other minerals we are buying now are tons and tons, and you don't even look at how many sailboats are transported to Tomorrow Town every day."

Windsor's cat's tail was on end, and she rolled her eyes at him.

Allen coughed a few times, but still had no intention of restraining himself, "Since the money is not enough, let's develop new products."

"What product?"

"Plate glass mirrors, the mirrors on the market are not so pure, so they must be very popular."

Allen got up, took the confused Windsor downstairs, went to the resource department to ask the orcs, and learned that there were many kinds of minerals in Tomorrow Town, including several tons of silver mines.

Due to the development of the chemistry class, the orcs who have already attended school know that the world is full of atoms, and humans are also composed of countless atoms. They were shocked for a long time, and they got used to it after a day.

After all, with physics and biology ahead, their world view has been subverted many times, and they gradually adapted to the new knowledge brought by Allen.

When he arrived at the glass factory, Buck, the master glass maker, immediately put down his work and let the apprentices take over his glass blowing, and then came to Allen wagging his cheerful tail.

When Buck saw Alan, he greeted foolishly, "Master Alan, the weather is fine today."

Allen glanced at the smoke column rising high in the distance. The air pollution is not too serious now. At least it will take a few years for factories to spread all over the place before it will affect the color of the sky.

After talking a few words about the weather and last night's food, Windsor got a little impatient, and Allen cut to the chase.

"This time we are about to start making flat mirrors. Tin bath float is indispensable for making mirrors, and the silver plating solution also requires a lot of chemical knowledge. Have you studied chemistry textbooks recently?"

Allen mentioned a chemistry textbook casually, and Buck from South Bank Town was stunned, scratching his head unconsciously and said: "Master Allen, I feel dizzy after reading that book."

"You have to read even if you are dizzy. If you don't understand enough, you can ask your apprentice to replace you. I will promote whoever does a good job." Allen knew that chemistry would cause headaches for orcs, but he still required the orcs to master knowledge.

Buck could only put a bitter face on his face and listen to Allen explain how to make the silver plating solution.

"The output of this silver plating solution is not high. It is currently prepared by the orc laboratory. The method is to dissolve silver nitrate in water, add ammonia water and sodium hydroxide to dilute it into silver hydroxide as a double salt..."

A string of chemical terms came out of Allen's mouth, making Buck feel dizzy, and silver, nitrate, sodium and other things came to mind at the same time.

These things are not simple. Every term in chemistry involves a lot of production chains of chemicals, such as how to make sodium hydroxide, how to make ammonia, and how to make silver nitrate.

Without understanding these things, it is impossible to make a silver plating solution.

Standing behind her, Windsor raised her straight cat ears and asked, "Master Allen, is there nothing else besides chemical silver plating?"

"Of course there are, such as tin amalgam combined with mercury and tin, but mercury is toxic to the human body. We now use chemical silver plating, which is safer."

"Mercury is poisonous?" Windsor had already put up a question mark, her pink and blue cat ears moved slightly, and her big eyes were full of curiosity.

"Methylmercury is easily soluble in lipids and is not easy to be decomposed by the human body. However, its carbon-mercury bond is not easy to break. It is a high-level nerve agent. You know the nerves, which are the nerves in your body..."

Seeing Windsor shrunk the cat's ears, Allen comforted him: "Mercury vapor evaporated at room temperature is highly toxic, but the amount of mercury in the organisms that are usually taken is very small, and a trace amount of mercury will be fine. It takes a long time to accumulate. Only then can it show up, don’t worry too much.”

"Master Allen, what are you talking about, I'm so dizzy."

Buck on the side was dizzy, feeling his brain trembling and confused.

Who am I, where am I, what am I doing... Buck shook his head, simply ignoring the complicated nouns that popped out of Alan's mouth.

"Learn more, these textbooks have mentioned it." Windsor felt upset for Alan when he saw that the glass factory manager was so useless.

She turned around, looked at the group of glass making apprentices, and asked, "Does any of you understand? If you think you understand, you can join the flat mirror making group."

The little slaves showed idiot eyes one after another, and shook their heads in a daze: "My lord, we have just started to learn the common characters of the Lion Heart Kingdom, and we can't understand chemistry books."

"Oh forgot, the town just started universal education."

Windsor backed away annoyed. She forgot that many workers in the town were born as slaves, and they had no education conditions before. Even if the town opened opportunities for adult slaves to learn, it would be difficult for them to learn to master.

Recently, the school's team of teachers has expanded. The teachers in the primary school are basically "little teachers". Adult teachers are sent to various construction sites to carry out open-air teaching with the latest masterpiece "portable small blackboard" from the blacksmith shop, bringing education to the to the slave class.

At this juncture, the slaves are not slaves, but more like freedmen. Except that they have no wages, no comfortable concrete houses, and the rights they enjoy are not much different from freedmen.

There are more and more adult teachers at the grassroots level, and even elementary school students go to the construction site to teach others. The knowledge advancement and engineering of Tomorrow Town are progressing more and more smoothly, but the acceptance ability of "students" is not the same.

A small number of slaves can understand a little bit, but most slaves need to talk back and forth to understand.

Unless Alan personally taught, Windsor secretly glanced at Alan, it felt impossible.

Now Alan teaches three subjects of chemistry, physics and biology every day, which takes up half a day, and it is absolutely impossible to extend his class to slaves who have no foundation.

Allen's eloquence is the most powerful individual talent she has ever seen. As long as he opens his mouth to speak for a few minutes, even the most difficult questions can be clarified, and he can remember very well, making it difficult to forget what Allen taught.

After a while, Allen went to the chemical laboratory and organized a group of orcs to form a production team for the chemicals needed for flat glass.

Most of the former slave members in the experimental group had been eliminated, and were dismissed by Allen to study chemistry, or to work as hard labor in the gunpowder factory.

In addition, he introduced a group of students who are good at chemistry into the chemistry laboratory to increase the production efficiency of the chemistry laboratory.

After a whole day of work, the flat mirror with very little output was finally born.

At the same time, Marianne, Marcie and other businesswomen wagged their cat tails and smiled and invited merchants to Tomorrow Town in various towns to participate in the auction of new products.

(End of this chapter)