Vol 4 Chapter 194: General Theory of Combustion

After reading all the papers and repeating the experiments, Oli was confused and thinking. Logan also discovered a unique gas called combustible air.
She opened a roll of parchment and wrote down her thoughts.
"First of all, it can be proved with certainty that air is composed of at least three different types of gases. One can breathe and support combustion, the other cannot breathe and support combustion, and the other kind of air itself is combustible.
Secondly, the phlogiston theory believes that there is phlogiston in combustibles. However, all quantitative experiments will find that thermal mass has no weight. Putting phosphorus in the air to burn, there is no noticeable change in weight.
In the end, phlogiston has never been proven, but combustion may have another explanation. "
As if a ray of light hit Oli, she seemed to be walking in a labyrinth constructed of phlogiston, about to find a way out, but hit the wall again.
As if going crazy, she found out all the research papers on phlogiston in recent years, taking notes one by one, and the sky gradually brightened.
In "Gensokyo", some wizards who were immersed in the competition gradually recovered. They were writing Betty's new essay "On Air and Fire", and their eyes gradually brightened.
Even Bulu and others in the desolate Shirakul clapped and praised.
The stars of Blue Saliva fly randomly: "This issue of "Magic" is a great one. We wizards have discovered three different kinds of air, turbid air, fire air and combustible air!
Combustible air is the combustibles in the air, while fire air is necessary for combustion. It is the correct air.
With fire air, life can exist. We humans need fire air to live. Other animals cannot survive without fire air. Even plants will die if they lose fire air.
Do you know what this means? "
Luther's head shook hard, he knew too little about the theoretical knowledge in this area.
Allen and Eva were thoughtful, but Bruce did not sell off, he said loudly: "Phlogiston is the foundation of life, and all our living things are essentially in a burning state!
We are like slowly roasting charcoal, except that it does not turn black, we are very similar to it. The combustion reaction is the cornerstone of our life, and we are a living flame. "
Allen questioned: "I think breathing and burning do have something in common, but directly think of us as a living fire. I think this simplifies the complex problem."
Eva also said: "The creature is definitely a very complicated structure. It is impossible to explain it completely with fire, but if you create a spell based on this, it is an idea. To kill the opponent you only need to extinguish the opponent's fire, and to treat the opponent you need to let the fire. Fullness."
Luther's head rose as he listened. He shook his head, turned and left, and went to inspect the development of the people.
More and more elemental school wizards began to cheer. No matter how you look at it, this discovery is a great discovery based on phlogiston theory.
At this moment, Oli was still reading the piles of scrolls, her eyes getting brighter and brighter, and her whole body was covered with a thin layer of radiance, which seemed to be blessed by some power.
There is no need to do additional experiments, all the secrets are in this pile of research papers on phlogiston theory, Oli's beautiful amber eyes are shining.
She unrolled a yellowed magic scroll, took a quill pen and wrote "The General Theory of Burning".
Ollie first reviewed the previous literature and made several important points:
"Most of our research is quantitative, so we need to admit or assume a law, the law of immortality.
I tried to state it like this:'Because artificial or natural operations cannot create anything out of nothing, in each operation, the total amount of matter existing before and after the operation is equal, and the quality and quantity of its elements remain unchanged, but only replacement and Deformation, this should be regarded as an axiom. All elemental experiments and all techniques are based on this principle: we must assume that the elements of the object being verified and the elements of its decomposition products are exactly equal. ’
According to His Excellency Betty’s "On Air and Fire" and Bayern’s research, I think it might be more appropriate to call the fire air the air of life. In addition, we discovered the following obvious facts:
First, when it burns, it emits fire or light;
Second, objects can only burn in the air of life (fire air);
Third, there is ‘destruction or decomposition of living air’ during combustion, and the increase in weight of the burning object is exactly equal to the weight of ‘destroyed and decomposed’ air;
Fourth, burned objects become acid by adding substances that increase their weight;
Fifth, the air of life (fire air) is a compound of fire or light and a base. The burning object removes this base when it burns, because the burning object attracts this base much stronger than the heat capacity, so it releases the heat combined with the base, which manifests itself as flame, heat and light.
I think that although phlogiston explains many phenomena well, it cannot prove itself. Even if phlogiston is eliminated, we can still explain combustion.
It is not metal-phlogiston = calcined ash, but metal + life air = calcined ash.
The so-called adding phlogiston is to remove the air of life, and removing phlogiston is to add the air of life. I call the air of life ‘angry’ for short, and all combustion is a biochemical reaction. "
The rich brilliance surrounds Oli, seeming to celebrate that human beings have taken another step in their understanding of the world. Such a strong source of great aura wakes Ace, who is studying the structure of the astral compass, from a state of immersion.
He looked at the scattered fragments, put away the core of the fourth-level astrolabe, and then a flash appeared outside Oli's residence.
"New theory?"
The clone of the demigod Thoth has appeared in the crowd unknowingly, and whispered with interest~EbookFREE.me~ The wizards looked solemn. Such a strong breath of great origin is slightly weaker than when the phlogiston theory was put forward. But it's almost comparable.
"What could it be?"
Bayern has arrived and whispered while touching his short beard.
After another period of time, violent light and heat suddenly broke out, and then disappeared. Betty and others also arrived one after another. Many wizards in the dream world, hearing that a new theory may be born, also came to watch.
Arnold walked out of the villa first, guarding the door with an alert look.
Ace's eyes bloomed with white light, and the soul communicated with the wizard's subconscious sea, and instantly felt Oli's state, which was warm, hot, and soft.
That is light, that is heat, and that is burning. This is a subversive doctrine. The second-level runes are surrounding and seem to be playing a gorgeous movement.
Ollie’s combustion theory assumes the law of indestructibility of matter, and based on this, puts forward the biochemistry theory, that is, any combustion essentially reacts with living air.