Vol 4 Chapter 136: Flame experiment

"If it weren't for the advice of Master Ace and Allen, maybe I would have been lying on the ground like Tautis, turned into a cold headless corpse, and I would be worse than him. I don't even have a wife or children."
　　 Bachelor Hambur sighed with mixed feelings of fortune, fear, and sympathy, and his thinking slowly became firm. Perhaps the foundation path needs to be changed!
The next day, the Shadow Crow slammed the glass of Allen's house and awakened him from his sleep. Allen didn't get up, and chanted the spell "window open" in a dazed manner. The glass window opened immediately, with a thick volume. The magic paper slammed on his bed, and the crow quacked and flew away.
　　 "The latest issue of the newspaper has arrived."
　　 Alan rubbed his wistful eyes, unfolding a few words from a roll of magic paper, and a paragraph of "The Tower Weekly Supplement" came into view.
　　"The affinity of matter and the natural phenomena that come from it mostly seem to depend on the motion and mechanism of the tiny components of objects that we cannot observe.
　　 The difference between objects only depends on the way their common substances are composed... Therefore, according to the small components of the substances, they reject each other and interact, and objects of this or that name are produced. "
　　 Allen rubbed his eyes. This hypothesis looks very good, but the four-element hypothesis also looks very good. The lack of experimental evidence is doubtful.
Overnight, the entire high platform territory seemed to have been attacked. The senior wizard apprentices one after another had headshots. Even if they did psychological construction, they did not have the advanced wizard apprentices who disintegrated the basic spell model in advance like Bru, and there are many. Because it was difficult to accept the new theory, the soul secret space was broken and solidified, and the future was completely lost.
　　 "Has the statistics come out?"
　　 Ace suddenly appeared on the top of the high platform outside the city and asked Leon, who was on his turn.
　　 Seeing Ace, Leon stood up subconsciously and bowed forty-five degrees. This is a habit he has cultivated as the first administrative officer all year round.
"Master Ace, the release of this new theory has caused a total of 51 advanced wizard apprentices to explode the basic spell model, the soul secret space shattered and died, and 120 senior wizard apprentices broke and solidified the soul secret space. Elemental school The wizard was hit hard."
　　 Ace sighed after hearing what Leon said.
　　"Magic has developed to a new stage. Perhaps every theoretical breakthrough in the future will produce a large number of headless corpses. The innovation of magic theory may require stepping on the corpses of the old theory to reach a higher level.
　　What's going on with Betty? "
Listening to Ace’s words, Leon felt a little distressed in his heart. He was not actually a serious research wizard. He didn’t have much talent for theory and hard work, and he was more of a unique series of doom spells. the study.
　　 "Betty's current situation has stabilized, her fire element series spell model has been disintegrated, and the soul secret space has been traumatized to a certain extent, but fortunately, it can be repaired and should not affect future development."
　　Meanwhile, Betty’s residence.
　　 The pale Betty pulled up her double ponytail at will and started her experiment.
"If the fire element does not exist, then there should be a new explanation for the phenomenon of combustion. Our combustion is all in the air. The four elements say that wind helps the fire. It does not mean that the four elements do not recognize Do not recognize the air.
Ollie once did an experiment using U-tubes and glass tubes containing mercury to prove that air can be compressed and diluted. The volume and pressure of the gas are inversely proportional, which means that air itself is a medium, and the combustion phenomenon is Exist in the air environment, if..."
　　 Betty prepared a sealed bell jar, placed a hot red hot iron plate under the bell jar, and used a suction machine to extract the air in the bell jar.
　　 The neck of the bell jar used a fixing device to drop the combustible material on the hot plate. The combustible material Betty prepared was sulfur. The sulfur was poured on the hot plate, and there was smoke but no fire.
　　 Betty opened the vent plug on the bell jar, and various small sparks appeared, among them a sulfur blue flame.
　　 "When the air is evacuated, I call it a vacuum. In a vacuum state, it seems that it cannot burn, but more experiments are needed to determine."
Betty also experimented with several combustible substances, the situation was similar to sulfur, but when she experimented with black powder, she got very wonderful results. The powder that fell on the hot plate in a vacuum slowly burned without exploding. .
　　 "A wide blue flame, like a sulfur flame, can continue to burn for so long. It is so strange. It can burn, but there is no explosion. Why is there such a strange phenomenon?"
Betty frowned. She continued to test the gunpowder. She covered the gunpowder with a sealed glass bell, heated the gunpowder with a magnifying glass, and found that the gunpowder burned only in the heated area, but when the air poured in, the gunpowder All of them burned all at once.
　　 "Is it because the saltpeter crystals used to make gunpowder mixed with air? Otherwise, how to explain this phenomenon."
　　Betty is no longer graceful and ladylike. She scratched her head unconsciously, and her hair has turned into a chicken nest. She thought for a while and decided to prepare saltpeter crystals again in a vacuum.
This kind of saltpeter crystal can guarantee that there is no air, but the result is the same, the gunpowder can still burn in a vacuum environment, but it does not explode~EbookFREE.me~ The substance mixed with saltpeter can burn even in places without air. Saltpeter heating can get spark steam similar to air! "
　　Betty stopped the experiment. She unrolled a magic paper and wrote the title "A New Experiment on the Relationship between Flame and Air" on it.
　　Betty elaborated on the purpose, design, process and conclusion of the experiment. At the end, she wrote:
"Air is a universal solvent for all sulphur substances; a lot of heat is generated during dissolution, which we call fire; dissolution is produced by an inherent substance that mixes with air, and this substance is fixed in saltpeter Even if the things are not exactly the same, they are very similar; in the process of dissolving objects with air, some of them are compounded and mixed or dissolved and transformed into air, floating with the air.
　　We can assume that because there are some things in the air that are also present in saltpeter, it can dissolve combustible objects themselves, and the heat released is the heat of dissolution, which is similar to the heat released by the dissolution of substances such as potassium carbonate and sulfuric acid in water. "
　　 Betty wrapped the paper carefully, opened the magic book and clicked it a few times. After about ten minutes, a shadow crow flew to Betty's window and slapped the window glass.
　　 Betty lifted the enchantment magic on the window, and the shadow crow penetrated the glass and appeared directly in the room. It turned from a shadow into a vivid black feather crow, with its mouth wide open.
　　 Betty stuffed the wrapped scroll into the crow's mouth, watching the crow turn into a shadow and fly to the high platform outside the city with expectant eyes.
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