Chapter 202 Law
"I think there's a deeper secret hidden in these numbers in the table."
Radu pointed at the numbers on the upper left and lower right with his fingers. The former represented the serial number, and the latter was a special number accurate to two decimal places.
Murtada followed Radu's thoughts and looked at the mysterious table.
——It is now called the periodic table. A few days ago, Radu discussed with Harold about naming the symbols in the table. Radu said that they could be called elements. This is the name he racked his brains to come up with.
This means that these things contain mysterious powers, and each has different properties, and can generate some substances, which is very similar to elemental force.
Harold was a little surprised, then praised his idea, and following Radu's idea, named the table on the last page the Periodic Table of Elements.
Murtada saw an extra line of content on a page that Radu had torn off:
The fourth law of elements: the total mass of a substance remains unchanged before and after a chemical reaction
The first three are also the "element laws" summarized by Radu. The first law of elements: the type of element remains unchanged before and after a chemical reaction.
The Second Law of Elements: The type of substance will change before and after a chemical reaction
The Third Law of Elements: The mass of the catalyst (this name is kindly provided by Harold) remains unchanged before and after a chemical reaction.
Murtada saw traces of repeated revisions next to these laws, some of which were only a single word. This gradual exploration and constant revision of original ideas made him feel that they were studying a completely new and innovative subject.
After confirming that this notebook was related to alchemy, he thought a lot.
The first is the selection of raw materials. The principle of traditional alchemy is to select objects with different properties and fuse them to form an alchemy product with the properties of several raw materials and some by-products.
For example, if you want to make gold through alchemy, you can use a base metal with a similar color to gold.
and plant juice containing spirituality (in the eyes of traditional alchemists, different metals have different souls, and the main difference between gold and other base metals is that its soul is purer) as raw materials.
But the finished product obtained by this principle is not fixed, even if the elemental force is used,
Even highly respected and experienced alchemists cannot guarantee that the products they produce will always meet their needs.
In the words of their teacher Harold, there is a surprise every time you open the lid.
But if we could know the composition of the required substances in advance, and consciously choose materials containing the same ingredients when selecting raw materials, wouldn’t the probability of success be much higher?
As a scholar of the vitalism school whose main subjects include medicine and biology, Murtada believes that as long as the content of the notes does not involve elemental forces and elemental creatures, it should be much more reliable than traditional alchemy.
But I don’t know what the Sulun scholars who focused on alchemy thought.
Murtada could almost imagine how lively the Sulun sect would be once the contents of the notes were made public.
There are also the ratios recorded in the notes. Radu has been trying to prepare the medicine according to the recipes in the notes. He has discovered that the total mass of the substance does not change before and after the reaction (the fourth law), but he has not yet found the specific mass relationship between the raw materials and the finished products.
He speculated that the mysterious number on the last page of the periodic table was either related to mass or volume, and the former was more likely.
If it is really related to quality, then can't we infer the quality of the finished product from the quality of the raw materials?
As Radu was thinking, he unconsciously picked up the pen and wrote down "The Fifth Law of Elements:".
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"They are doing independent research. I provided them with a notebook - I found it at a stall in Xumi City. It is of great academic value." Harold folded his hands on the table and said to the other four people with a smile.
Elhaisen glanced at him and then went back to reading.
Harold continued to tell others the details without any guilt, even though the Liyue part of his "old notes" was written by Elhaisen at his expense.
I don't want to let anyone else know, but there's nothing I can do about it, Harold thought helplessly. Liyue is still using the Large Seal Script. Isn't it normal that a flower-growing family member like me can't write the Large Seal Script?
I can't even write calligraphy, art is not on the college entrance examination, and I chose oil painting for the postgraduate entrance examination. What can I do?
Harold sighed in his heart and continued, "...They developed a set of theories by themselves. I saw them write 'The First Law of Elements' and 'The Second Law of Elements' on the draft..."
This reminded him of the time when he was in junior high school in his previous life and had derived mathematical formulas under the guidance of his teacher, but the exploration of these two boys was much more difficult.
"How accurate do these laws seem to you?" asked Seno.
Seno, who came from the Sulun school, was very interested in everything Harold said about the periodic table and chemical formulas, while Kavi and Setale were more concerned about the two new disciples Harold accepted.
"I have confirmed some of them before, and I have similar speculations about some of them, but I am busy and cannot spare the energy to study this topic.
After realizing that this would be a huge project, I put it aside for the time being. ” Harold joked,
"Now I've finally found someone to complete this task for me, and I can even add my name to the 'tutor' column."
"Submit your project application as soon as possible and be careful about the leakage of research information." Seno nodded and reminded.
"If we can crack the secret in the notes, can we really synthesize gold easily?" Kavi asked curiously.
To synthesize gold, alchemy was originally created for this goal.
That won't work. Gold is an element. From a scientific point of view, it can only be replaced from some medicines containing gold element.
Harold silently gave the answer in his mind, but he said, "Maybe it's possible. As long as we can figure out the elemental composition of gold, we can use a potion containing the same elements to synthesize gold."