Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 337 Dynamite Award

These two guys probably thought that Yang Menglong was interested in their research, so they chattered about their new invention. They had no idea that the small bottle of nitroglycerin had already made them wander around the hell gate for several times. .Yang Menglong thought it was necessary to teach them a lesson and tell them to shut up. He got up and went to the test bench filled with all kinds of messy stuff. He picked up a ball of cotton and put it in the water and scrubbed it repeatedly. He was very patient. I cleaned up all the impurities inside, then took a beaker and filled it with a little water, added a little alkali and stirred it evenly, put the cotton in, lit the alcohol lamp and started to cook it slowly.The two live treasures came over to look at me curiously and asked, "Sir, what are you doing?"

Yang Menglong said: "Shut up and keep your eyes open! By the way, where is the nitric acid?"

Pang Chun pointed to a porcelain vase with a thin neck and a bulging belly: "Here it is!"

Yang Menglong opened the porcelain bottle and looked at it. It was transparent, and it seemed that the concentration was very high.He said, "This nitric acid is good." Putting the lid back on, he continued to boil his cotton, adding a little more to it now and then.The two brothers watched with gusto, and both thought this kid was a good guy, a fellow of theirs.

After the fellows boiled the fat from the cotton, they took the cotton out and put it in water to clean it, then dried it, picked up the bottle containing nitric acid, unplugged it, and poured it into a dry beaker to the bottom... Pang Chun Pang Xia clutched his chest and let out a scream: "My nitric acid!" He was about to cry. The process of nitric acid is much more complicated than sulfuric acid. This has already cost them a lot of wages, and Yang Menglong gave them all at once. After squandering it clean, can you not feel bad?Yang Menglong turned a deaf ear to their wailing and just put the degreased cotton into nitric acid.The absorbent cotton has top-notch water absorption performance, sucking in the nitric acid in big gulps, and quickly "drinked" the nitric acid completely.Yang Menglong fished it out again and put it on the window sill to dry. This process must be very careful, splashing a little nitric acid is no joke!Although the pair of live treasures felt sorry for their own nitric acid, they were more interested in the lump of cotton soaked with nitric acid, keeping their eyes on it without blinking.After watching for a long time, they didn't see any reaction from Cotton. They became impatient, and Pang Chun called out, "My lord, what are you doing?"

Yang Menglong said: "You will understand after drying them."

Pang Chun said: "It's too slow to dry in this way, why not just dry it with fire?"

Yang Menglong lazily lay down on the chair, and said: "If you want to die, you can use the fire to roast it. Don't blame me for not reminding you, this lump may not be lethal enough to blow up a house, but it will kill two people It's an easy job!"

Both of them were taken aback: "It will explode!?"

Yang Menglong didn't bother to talk to them, just closed his eyes and rested.

The pair of live treasures continued to stare at the lump of cotton, trying to figure out why a lump of cotton exploded.

After two hours, Yang Menglong put on his gloves and walked over, tore off some cotton and tried it, it was very good, the remaining nitric acid evaporated, and the cotton was completely dried.He called: "Pang Chun, stretch out your hand."

Pang Chun didn't know why, so he stretched out his hand.Yang Menglong put the bit of cotton in his palm, moved the alcohol lamp towards him, and said with an evil smile: "Next is the moment to witness the miracle—"

"boom!"

Before the flame touched the cotton, the ball of cotton turned into a ball of extremely dazzling fire, and disappeared without a trace with a slight explosion.Pang Chun jumped back in fright, almost knocking over the table: "It will really explode! It will really explode!"

Pang Xia's eyeballs almost fell to the ground: "This...how is this possible? A good ball of cotton, just soaked and boiled, will explode. How is this possible?"

Yang Menglong smiled strangely: "Do you want to see its power?"

The two brothers nodded like chickens pecking at rice.

Yang Menglong took a copper pipe, stuffed the large ball of nitrocellulose into it, blocked one end, then tore off a long enough piece of cloth, soaked it in alcohol, and said to the living treasures: " Come with me!" Leading them to the school garden, stuffing one end of the cloth strip into the copper pipe, wrapping the rest around the copper pipe a few times, fixing it to a tree, and igniting it Cloth.After doing all this, his two soles flew up and down, and ran tens of meters away at the speed of light!Those two brothers hid aside early, without blinking their eyes...

The flames quickly climbed up along the cloth strips, and soon reached the mouth of the copper pipe...

"boom!!!"

A loud noise shook the entire campus, and even the ground shook slightly. A large ball of fire shot up into the sky. The poor tree was blown into two pieces, sawdust flew everywhere like sharp arrows, and everything was a mess. !The two brothers were dumbfounded. They never dreamed that cotton could explode, and it could explode so powerfully!Good guy, this is much stronger than any gunpowder!They looked at Yang Menglong with infinite respect, with eyes drooling and their knees slightly bent, almost kneeling down to call Master!This is the ancestor who played with explosives. How could they have come up with such a safe and quick way to prepare explosives!
"Sir, what kind of explosive is this? It's so powerful!"

Pang Chun and Pang Xia ran over to check the tree, my good guy, the bowl-thick tree was completely blown off, and a large section of the tree was smashed to pieces. I can't believe it's all thanks to a bunch of light cotton!

Yang Menglong clapped his hands and said, "This one, it's called gun cotton, you can also call it nitrocellulose. Degrease the cotton and soak it in nitric acid, then pick it up and dry it. It's very simple."

Pang Chun said: "My lord, you are a genius! Only you can come up with such a wonderful way to prepare explosives!"

Yang Menglong sighed: "I didn't come up with it... Also, although this gun cotton is powerful, it is extremely unstable. Don't explain the fire, a little spark or a little higher temperature may cause an explosion!"

Pang Xia said: "It's just as dangerous as the glycerin we just had!"

Yang Menglong said: "Yes, the nitroglycerin you made is equally powerful, but it's too dangerous. A slight shock will explode, endangering lives."

The two brothers thought it was true, it was really too dangerous.However, they didn't think about it at a deeper level... Danger is danger, they only do a little, so what's the point?Little did they realize that great inventions are meaningless if they cannot be manufactured in large quantities and transported safely.

Yang Menglong changed the subject: "However, if you put the gun cotton into nitroglycerin, it will melt and become an extremely safe colloidal explosive. Let alone sparks, even if you set it on fire, it will be difficult to destroy it." It exploded."

Pang Chun and Pang Xia's eyes lit up immediately: "What else is there? Let's go, my lord, let's go back and study it!"

Yang Menglong said: "Forget it, I'm not interested in doing such a dangerous experiment again."
Pang Chun begged: "My lord, do it again, just once!"

Pang Xia was pitiful: "That's right, let's do it again, just this time!"

Yang Menglong shook his head: "Not once! However, if you are interested, I can allocate money to build a laboratory for you to conduct such experiments!"

As soon as they heard that Yang Menglong was willing to allocate money to build a laboratory for them to play with, the two brothers' eyes immediately brightened: "My lord, is it true?"

Yang Menglong said: "Really! Not only that, but I will find a way to hire some people with the same hobbies as you to do experiments with you!"

Pang Chun's saliva flowed out: "That... that's really great!"

Pang Xia was more practical: "But in this way, isn't our work..."

Yang Menglong said: "Your job is to do various experiments! Glycerin, nitric acid, sulfuric acid, alcohol, charcoal... I can openly supply these raw materials. As long as you don't sell them for money, I can give you whatever you want!"

Now these two brothers are about to fly to Yunxiao. Engaging in this kind of research is not only dangerous, but also very expensive. Their family background is not bad. After they became obsessed with this, they soon made their father work hard. His family property was wiped out, and he almost starved to death on the street.Although they have found a job with a good salary, it is not enough to support the huge consumption caused by the experiment. If someone is willing to pay them to play, that would be great!However, Pang Chun is still calm. He is the eldest brother. He is a few years older and has seen more of the world. He knows that there is no free lunch in the world. If he has given you so many benefits, he must be rewarded. He reluctantly Restraining the excitement in my heart, I asked, "I don't know what your lord needs us to do?"

Yang Menglong said in a generous tone: "Actually, there are not many things I want you to do. First, you must find a way to safely prepare large quantities of nitroglycerin and gunwool, and then mix the two to make my Get me the explosives I need."

To put it bluntly, he just wanted that kind of gelatinous explosive that was powerful and could be safely stored and transported.This is a very dangerous research. The genius Nobel started from nitroglycerin to colloidal explosives. He did not know how many times he was injured and how many relatives and friends died in research accidents. He actually entrusted this task to After seeing these two fools, they are really not ordinary cheaters!The most deceitful thing is that those two boys agreed without hesitation: "No problem!"

Yang Menglong said: "If you can figure it out, I will reward you heavily! If you are injured or encounter an accident during the research, I will give you enough compensation so that you, your descendants, will not have to worry about food in this life." Worry about wearing it!"

Those two guys were already laughing so hard they couldn't see their teeth: "That's really thankful, my lord!"

Yang Menglong smiled bluntly: "You don't have to thank me, I should thank you if I want to thank you!" He wondered in his heart whether there should be a dynamite award to encourage Chinese people to work hard to innovate, but after thinking about it, forget it, he thought I haven't even skimmed the dynamite horoscope I want, so let's play a hairy dynamite prize!
Something very important seems to be missing?
Yang Menglong tried his best to think about it, but he couldn't think of it, so he could only forget it in the end. It's not too late to solve it when he thinks about it later!

Knowing what is happening and not knowing why, coupled with carelessness, these two shortcomings doom Yang Menglong's research will not be smooth sailing, and soon, what he ignores will make him feel like crying without tears...

(End of this chapter)