Struggle in the Steam Age

"By the way, I am here with you this time. The main purpose is to ask you what is the specific situation of this new material algin?" After a brief chat about the specific situation on the island, Lawrence Turning the topic to the main problem after calling them today.

"Ah, it's actually an accidental product of my previous research." Researcher Miller said. "Because I came to the Institute of Medical Research and found that many colleagues are studying microorganisms, so I chose the medium of microorganisms as my research direction. After all, this medium is essential for the research or reproduction of microorganisms. "

Lawrence nodded when Miller said this. Because he knew that all the things he posted before were related to microbes, the number of people who came to the island naturally chose this aspect as their research direction. And Miller obviously found some suitable directions from this trend and made efforts.

"——Because many people had already begun to study various kinds of culture media on land, so I wanted to find what I needed from the ocean." Just when Lawrence recovered, Miller had already said Here comes the critical part.

"In the beginning, it was difficult to obtain materials from the sea, so it was difficult for me to advance my plan. But since the Roka murlocs joined our territory, the progress has been greatly accelerated."

"I hired ten Loka murlocs and asked them to search for various organic matter in the surrounding water for me. Then I experimented with yeast one by one. As a result, I never found a suitable medium, but found a bunch of basically Something that doesn't work." Miller said with a wry smile. "So recently I have been trying to find ways to develop other uses for those failed products to recover some of the cost."

"For example, this is the case with this kind of algin. Yeast and the seaweed extract will become a kind of hard lump after being fermented together. After heating, this solid will turn into a colloid. Take advantage of this time. Shape it into what we want. At first I thought this kind of thing could be a substitute for rubber, but later I found out that it couldn’t work.”

"On the one hand, this kind of thing is not heat-resistant at all, it will become soft at 120°C, and it will become liquid at 150°C. So it is impossible to replace rubber as a gasket or sealing ring on a steam engine. On the other hand, this The ductility and firmness of things after molding are average."

"Fortunately, the people of the Loka fish I hired reminded me that the stability of this kind of thing in the face of acid, alkali, salt and other things and its inability to dissolve in water are used to help them save those that are inconvenient in water. So I simply made such a batch of things and sold them to fishers. But besides that, I really can’t think of any use for this thing.”

"Actually, there is only one reason why I am looking for you today, and that is because I think this thing is very useful." Lawrence smiled and took a plastic box made of alginate and said. "But you need to talk about your material limit first, and what is the output of this material?"

"The yield of this material should actually be large, because the kind of seaweed from which the material can be extracted is a species with relatively strong reproductive capacity and is easy to grow in the shallow waters of the island."

After hearing Lawrence's question, Miller first asked the fish people and replied to him. "As for the limit of this material, we have not completed an accurate test, so there is no accurate appraisal report yet."

"But we have also done some simpler tests. For example, the thinnest thing is as thick as hard cardboard. If it is thinner, it will be crushed with a little force on the fingers." Miller took out from his body. A palm-sized notebook said, "For another example, the priest of the Agricultural Church told me that this thing will dissolve if it is buried in the ground within half a year—"

"Then this kind of thing can be used in more places." After hearing Miller read the previous analysis data of this algin in the little book, Lawrence realized that he had really picked up the treasure this time. .

Because the properties of this thing seem to be very similar to his previous polypropylene, and it is obviously much more environmentally friendly. The only difference is that this thing is slightly less tough, but it should be enough for daily use.

Although using this kind of thing to make plastic bags, life buoy or further production of chemical fiber is basically useless. But it can be made into a variety of containers for holding certain corrosive items.

In this way, many original heavy and fragile glass containers or metal containers that require complicated processing can be replaced.

"At least I think we can replace most of the bottles used for finished medicines with this material." Lawrence said with the small box. "Compared to the glass bottles used today, this kind of bottle is obviously lighter and cheaper. The most important thing is that even if this kind of bottle is not flexible enough, the problem of falling two or three meters should not break like a glass bottle. ."

"Hey, this is indeed a good idea. Now those medicines are too easy to accidentally fall on the ground and break, and they are a little heavy." Miller also reacted to Lawrence's reminder. Soon, under the inspiration of Lawrence, he discussed several uses of this new material with him.

"You are so wise." After Lawrence said several new uses for this algin, Miller looked at Lawrence with an admiring look. "I thought about it for a long time before I barely figured out that this thing could be used for the products of the Loka fish that people carry on land, but I didn't expect that there would be so many uses."

"Nothing, it's just that I have seen more things. I think if you are willing to pay more attention to the things around you, you should be able to think of these usages."

Lawrence showed a humble expression and said that although everyone present thought that Lawrence's words were the perfect embodiment of a scholar's humility, but only he knew that he was really just taking advantage of his knowledge.

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Because this thing can be regarded as a kind of very environmentally friendly plastic, and Lawrence, who was surrounded by plastic in his previous life, can naturally carry out the mature uses of plastic in his mind after confirming the specific situation of this thing.~www .ltnovel.com~ But in the eyes of outsiders, this is a very wise performance of Lawrence.

In the next period of time, Lawrence and the others made plans for the future development direction of the algin industry. Fortunately, the law on the island previously stipulated the principle of benefit distribution in this case, so they quickly divided their rights and obligations in the future development of the algin industry. As for the details, there will be professionals to deal with it later.

In addition to obtaining a new material, the greatest benefit of alginate was to find a good industry for the Loka fish people on the new island. Allow them to quickly integrate into the entire system of the island. Especially for these Loka fish people, the irreplaceability of a characteristic industry formed by virtue of ethnic advantages is the best way to integrate into the island.

Of course, this kind of irreplaceability refers to cost irreplaceability and not other aspects. Otherwise, human beings as the main nation on the island may not be able to allow such a heterogeneous race that completely monopolizes the lifeline of a certain industry. The sentence of guilty of guilt can be regarded as a truth in every plane.

But on the other hand, the development of the entire island should be as balanced as possible, especially the multi-ethnic islands like Now Sauer Island. Otherwise, those races who have not had development opportunities for a long time and appear to be clearly poor will naturally have serious dissatisfaction and cause a series of troubles.