Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 19 Scientific Research Commission
  Purficott's steam carriage ran into some trouble as it drove into the Langton University campus.

Because of her initial application for the position of alchemy professor, Purficott had some unpleasant quarrels with the school board of Langton University, so the doorman received instructions not to allow her to enter Langton University again.

However, the guard's obstruction was meaningless. The full name of Langton University is the Royal Chartered Langton University College of Integrated Academic Research. The commonly known Royal Langton University is just its abbreviation.

This means that Langton University is one of the royal assets. In fact, the Queen herself is the current Chancellor of the university, but usually she only holds an honorary title and does not really need to fulfill relevant obligations.

And Purficott, who holds the Queen's Letter of Appointment, is in a sense the Queen's representative.

In other words, she now represents the owner of this school, one of the school board directors, and the current school superintendent. The guard has no reason to prevent her from entering the school campus, not even to stop her carriage.

Not to mention, the eldest princess Anne was on Perfectcourt's carriage. It was impossible for Her Royal Highness to get off the carriage and walk into the campus, right?

Therefore, facing the steam carriage that was almost forcing its way into the city, the gate guards had no choice but to obediently get out of the way and let Purficot drive straight into the campus.

Purficott was not looking for trouble today. After passing the school gate, she went straight to today's destination, the Alchemy Department.

"Ah! Miss Brandless! Welcome!" The professors of the Alchemy Department showed a very welcoming attitude when they saw Purficott's arrival. They were so happy that they forgot to welcome him first. Princess Anne.

However, Princess Anne didn't care about this. After the professors saluted her, she handed over the leadership to Perfectcott.

Everyone came to the reception room of the Alchemy Department. After everyone was seated, Perficott spoke out the purpose of his visit: "I have been entrusted by Her Majesty the Queen to launch a scientific expedition to the Arctic region. The royal family will Fully support this scientific expedition activity.

Considering the harsh environment of the Arctic, sufficient preparations need to be made before the official departure. Cold-resistant materials are the top priority, so I plan to entrust everyone in the Alchemy Department to carry out relevant research and development work. "

"Arctic scientific expedition?" After hearing Purficott's words, the professors of the Alchemy Department showed interested expressions as she expected.

Although not everyone is fascinated by the Arctic, if you can participate in this scientific expedition, it will undoubtedly be something that can make you famous.

For professors like them, they do not lack material conditions, but fame and fortune are not so clear-cut. After all, at their level, these are the only things they pursue.

"Yes, the polar regions are still a restricted area for human beings. So far, no one has set foot in the forbidden areas of life at the North and South Poles. So this time, with the support of the royal family, we will launch a challenge to conquer the Arctic and leave human footprints in the Arctic. !" Although Purficott doesn't like socializing and socializing, she is a time traveler after all, and she still has some basic social skills and abilities: "And this will be a large-scale scientific expedition. According to the current plan, We will establish a permanent scientific research station in the Arctic and station scientists for long-term stays to conduct investigations and research on various aspects of the Arctic's ecological environment, geology and landforms.

Considering the harsh climate of the Arctic, cold-resistant materials are an important guarantee for us to be able to set foot in the Arctic, so I hope to entrust you to develop new cold-resistant materials to withstand the severe cold in the Arctic. "Perfect's words fully aroused the interest of these professors, and many people immediately began to discuss issues related to cold-resistant materials in low voices.

Purficott was relatively familiar with these professors from the Alchemy Department, so she did not continue to be polite and instead spoke about the requirements for cold-resistant materials: "For cold-resistant materials, currently there are three different types of materials that need to be considered. the use of.

One is to make clothes. The harsh climate environment of the Arctic requires clothes that can prevent wind, keep warm, and withstand severe cold. Therefore, there must be a light, soft and cold-resistant material that can be made into clothes.

The second is to build buildings. Because a permanent scientific research station is to be set up, the issue of keeping the station warm is a top priority. After all, we can’t just rely on stoves to keep warm in the extremely cold environment of the Arctic. Buildings must have good thermal insulation properties.

As for the third one, it is used to make various tools, including vehicles used in the Arctic, because my research found that iron will become very brittle at about minus 40 degrees and lose its due toughness. Although steel It can persist to minus 70 degrees Celsius, but there are no exceptions.

Therefore, we must develop a new material that can at least remain brittle in a low temperature environment of minus 80 degrees Celsius. Otherwise, everything will break when touched, which will definitely not work. "

Regarding the three situations mentioned by Purficott, the professors in the Alchemy Department understood her meaning directly.

This is not something difficult to understand, and naturally there is no one who doesn’t understand it or doesn’t understand why it is done.

Rather than why they did this, they were more concerned about the fact that Perficott mentioned that iron would become brittle in a low temperature environment of minus 40 degrees Celsius.

Everyone knows that rising temperature will soften the originally hard steel, because smelting steel is based on this principle, but no one has ever thought that steel will become brittle when the temperature is too low.

After all, in a normal natural environment, low temperatures of minus 40 degrees Celsius are relatively rare, especially for humans before the industrial revolution. Areas under this temperature environment are not suitable for human survival, except for exiled prisoners. No one would live in such a harsh environment.

Even those exiled prisoners, even if they have enough knowledge, are unable to do research in this environment.

"These are not problems." After several professors from the Alchemy Department discussed it, a respected old professor spoke up and asked Purficott: "Besides the application method, are there any other requirements? ?"

"Yes, save costs!" Purficott raised his index finger and said to the professors: "This is the only requirement besides the purpose. The empire intends to consider opening up the Arctic route, and cold-resistant materials will be used on a large scale. , so please control the cost of these materials so that at least ordinary people can afford them and have the possibility of large-scale industrial production."

(End of this chapter)