Thousands of sparks

Chapter 93 Scientists Are Cursing in the Streets (Today's Second Update)

Of course, before the birth of "tactics", Dusand needs to first solve the problem of whether the equipment exists or not.

How to match the operating speed of the two engines, how to drive the track, and how to ensure smooth operation and heat dissipation are all problems.

Fortunately, Dusand is now a party A, and Polina will not grab him by the neck and curse loudly, "You know a hammer".

It feels so good to throw away the requirements and leave everything else to Party B to figure out!

The next thing to deal with is more troublesome.Du Sande has little idea about this, but this department is still one of the most core R&D departments in the entire factory.

"According to your request, we hired six chemistry experts from Olin." Before entering the "core department", Polina stopped and said to Dusand, "But I still don't quite understand why Such a huge amount of effort and commitment has been put into this place."

"Because this is the future, a direction with unlimited potential for development." Du Sande walked to the door with a smile and pushed open the double door, "If you want to make the industry go further, rubber is a very important areas of development."

Synthetic Rubber R&D Center, here is the highest average salary in the entire Belford Automobile Plant, but the department with the least output so far.Dusand's factory has invested [-] gold pounds here, and let the research department run on its own for four months.But in the entire synthetic rubber research and development center, there was no movement except for the strange smell coming out every day and the constant delivery of new custom-made machinery and equipment.

Several accountants hired by high salaries have long been full of resentment and dissatisfaction with this department. In their eyes, this department is completely a loser.There is no meaning and value to continue to maintain at all.However, their letter of opinion to the manager and even Dusand and Polina to "abolish the rubber research and development center" has always been sunk in the sea, and no reply has been received at all.

Although there was no reply, their daily work was not affected in any way.

On the contrary, the few accountants who had no objection to this were gradually fired.

Accountants have reached a consistent consensus on this—the upper management of the company probably also questioned the existence value of this department, and it can even be called a "controversy".The big boss must support the existence of this department, but others don't see it that way.

Therefore, the accountant's attitude towards this department is very simple.

Just send out a letter of strong dissent every now and then.

Entering the research center, what Dusand saw in his eyes was a group of busy experimenters.They were wearing their own clothes, holding all kinds of suspicious-looking droppers, adding strange liquids or solids to various containers.

Dusand stood at the door and watched for a long time, but the experimenters were not even interested in turning their heads to see "who opened the door".

"It seems that they have more important work to do." Polina smiled and moved to Dusande's side. She seemed to be happy to see Dusande slumped here.

"This work is indeed very important." Du Sande was not angry but happy, this is what he idealized scientists should do.

Anyway, such a scene made Du Sande feel that the money he spent was very worthwhile - even worth a little too much.

"Let's find someone to ask about the situation?" Du Sande squinted his eyes and searched for a long time, and then said to Polina, "Who is the current laboratory manager?"

"There are no lab managers here. All you see are our hired chemists and their apprentices."

Polina made a small suggestion, "If you want to know how they are working, I suggest you ask them directly."

Now that Paulina has said so, let's ask.Du Sande patted the shoulder of an old man who was thinking hard and asked, "Excuse me, what are you doing?"

"This." The old man pointed to the beaker in front of him, and then continued to think hard.

"This is... turpentine?" Dusande looked at the label on the beaker, and then asked curiously, "Are you planning to make rubber out of it?"

"Of course." The old man nodded slightly, and he said seriously, "Through vacuum heating, turpentine can be pyrolyzed to produce a special colorless volatile liquid, which will form a white color after being exposed to the air for about twenty hours. Although the elastic body of natural rubber is far from the elasticity of natural rubber, it is at least close. If we can find a way to make it into rubber, then we don’t have to worry about not having enough rubber in the future.”

Turpentine vacuum pyrolysis?From his own mind, Dusand desperately dug out what he had learned in college ten years ago.As a student studying pharmacy, his understanding of the chemical synthesis principles of drugs is not as good as those students studying pharmaceutical engineering.But turpentine is undoubtedly a raw material that has a wide range of applications in the pharmaceutical field.

It's a pity that Dusand does not have a technical roadmap for synthetic rubber in his mind, and his understanding of rubber is limited to the point that "this thing is black when it is used in the industrial field".

A little far away, a middle-aged man was cooking something over a small fire.Du Sande leaned over, covered his nose and asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Boil rubber." The middle-aged man coughed and said angrily, "Natural rubber is too soft and easy to deform, and it is easy to deform when it is directly used on car tires."

"Then the boiled rubber won't be easily deformed?" Du Sande looked curiously at the cauldron emitting a strange and unpleasant smell, "Is it useful?"

"I don't know. That's why I have to give it a try." The middle-aged man shook his head and said, "This logic is the same as that of boiled eggs. Have you ever eaten eggs? The egg white of a raw egg is liquid, but it becomes solid after cooking. Hardness Many times stronger than liquids—maybe heating the rubber would do the same."

Before the middle-aged man finished speaking, the old man who had just stared at the turpentine began to mock, "What's the use of being a cook here? Have you found the reason why the eggs harden after being heated? There's not even a reason." If you figure it out, do it first, you are betting on luck!"

The middle-aged man who boiled rubber scolded back unceremoniously, "You still have the face to criticize me? Holding turpentine all day long and never letting go, heating and cracking every day and then staring at the jar in a daze - why don't you go fishing if you want to kill time? Don't take my space in the lab!"

Du Sande blinked, wanting to persuade but didn't know where to start.After a while, he suddenly thought of a new entry point.

"After adding lemon juice to the egg white, the egg white will be more easily whipped into foam." Du Sande suddenly began to talk about the phenomenon he observed in the kitchen, "If boiling rubber is as effective as boiling eggs, then...in the future Does adding acid or other substances with similar properties to rubber have the same effect?"

"Shipping eggs has nothing to do with chemical reactions, it's because air is mixed into the egg whites." The old man said angrily, "Have you ever eaten meringue? It's full of small air bubbles!"

"Who said it doesn't matter?" The middle-aged man was furious. "There is a restaurant next to Imperial University that sells pickled eggs. Mix quicklime and plant ash to pickle eggs, and the egg whites can become solid!"

"That's alkaline, you idiot!" The old man also got angry, he tapped his finger on the table and said Dusand angrily, "This kid is talking about adding lemon juice to the egg white, and you are talking about marinating the egg with quicklime. They are not of the same nature!"

"Fuck your fart, the principle is the same! Proteins can change their properties due to the influence of other substances!"

"The same size as you, one acid and one base, you don't even understand this kind of thing, so why do you do chemical research?"

"Fuck you, chemical substances cause protein denaturation, such a basic thing needs to be studied? You should book yourself a cemetery!"

Dusande stood there awkwardly, watching the two scientists he hired scolding the street through his head, with only one thought in his mind.

Scientists are human beings too, and they are quite cruel when they scold the street...

(End of this chapter)