Chapter 123: Chapter 122: Fla Color Reaction and Electron Transition
Night.
Stars filled the sky, twinkling brilliantly.
Gro sat on the bed in his bedroom, having chased away all the maids and guards from the room, staring intently at an hourglass on the table next to him, looking as if he was bewitched.
“Swish, swish, swish…”
The sand flowed quickly, and Gro’s eyes stayed open without blinking for several minutes, red with bloodshot veins.
Finally…
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“Swish… swish-swish…”, all the sand in the upper part of the hourglass shone brightly, signaling the most suitable ti for ditation had arrived.
“Hu,” Gro took a deep breath, calming his excited emotions, then picked up the Mysterious Potion dihydrogen monoxide Richard had given him, took a small sip, and drank about one-third of it. Afterward, he opened the bottle of ether and took a deep sniff.
Having done all this, he sealed the two potion bottles tightly and set them aside securely. Gro relaxed his body and lay down on the soft velvet bedding, closed his eyes, and started to ditate. Of course, to the outside world, it looked more like he was lying in state.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes…
Gro felt his body begin to vibrate, his consciousness separating, trying to leave the body, but the physical bonds were strong and difficult to break free from.
Just as Gro was becoming anxious inside, he felt so force from the outside world coming near. Before he could react, he felt his consciousness being seized by this external force and rapidly pulled away from his body.
With a “pop,” Gro felt as though he heard sothing, and his consciousness successfully detached from his body, suddenly feeling light and extrely comfortable.
Gro tried to look around him, but could see nothing – which was normal. In reality, apart from distant energy elents, he could hardly sense anything else. Besides returning to the body, he could hardly control his consciousness to do anything more than shake within a very limited area. Generally speaking, the closer the shake brought him to the free energy elents, the easier it was to absorb them.
Today, perhaps because of the potion, the range of shaking was noticeably greater than yesterday, aning he could absorb more free energy elents.
It seed the dihydrogen monoxide potion was indeed magical.
Thinking this, Gro started to ditate with all his might while another consciousness lightly shook its head and swiftly left the room.
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In the study of Richard’s residence in Cuijin City.
Richard sitting on the chair opened his eyes.
“Hu,” Richard exhaled a breath of turbid air and stood up. He moved his body, turned, and walked out of the study toward the adjacent experint lab to start preparations for detecting the so-called free energy elents, to prove whether his previous conjecture was correct.
Inside the laboratory, there was a black long table in the center with nurous instrunts on it. Around the table, tight against the walls, stood several wooden racks and cabinets filled with many potion bottles and various experintal materials.
Richard walked over to the experint table, first taking out the cobalt blue glass and placing it properly, then he found the salt acid, deionized water, and platinum wire coil, with the last item being a fla alcohol lamp.
Generally, a Bunsen lamp is best for fla tests, its temperature reaching 1500 degrees Celsius and giving clear results. However, the Bunsen lamp, invented by German scientist “Bunsen” in the 19th century on Earth, needed petroleum gas or coal gas as fuel, which was a bit troubleso; Richard eventually chose an alcohol spray lamp made by modifying an alcohol lamp.
The flas from the alcohol spray lamp were significantly hotter than those from an ordinary alcohol lamp at around 400 degrees Celsius, reaching approximately 1000 degrees Celsius. Although lower than the Bunsen lamp, it was still sufficient.
With all the experintal apparatuses ready, Richard began the actual experint.
Holding the platinum wire coil, he imrsed it in salt acid, watching bubbles form on the surface of the coil until they disappeared, Richard knew that any impurities on the platinum wire had been cleared.
Richard picked up the alcohol lamp and lit it, then removed the platinum wire from the hydrochloric acid and sent it into the high-temperature flas of the alcohol lamp.
The platinum wire, just taken out and still sared with hydrochloric acid, imdiately made a “sizzling” sound upon touching the flas of the alcohol lamp. The liquid swiftly evaporated, followed by a faint acrid sll. Richard, however, paid no attention to this and just stared closely at the fla, waiting until there were no color changes. Then, he took down the wire coil, rinsed it with deionized water, and left it to dry naturally.
At this point, the first step of the experint was complete, and what followed was the most important, yet simplest step.
Holding the platinum wire, Richard extended it back into the flas of the alcohol lamp. At the sa ti, he controlled a free energy elent from within his body that had not been used in lting before. It surged out from his fingertips, following the handle of the wire into the part of the coil that was in the flas.
Visibly, the color of the alcohol lamp began to change. It was no longer the color of the alcohol lamp’s fla, but the fla color of the free energy elent.
This was precisely a fla color reaction.
Flas are colored. Partly, this is due to the temperature, hence the saying “a pure and azure fla,” but part of it is also due to the presence of elents.
The reason why fireworks have a multitude of vibrant colors is that many different tallic elents are added to them: adding tal potassium yields a pale violet; adding tal sodium, a golden yellow; adding tal lead, a bluish-white…
The principle behind the fla color reaction is known as electron transition.
This is because when certain elents burn in a fla, the electrons outside their atomic nuclei absorb a certain amount of energy and transition from their ground state to a more energetic excited state. After the transition, when the excited electrons return to the ground state, they release the excess energy in the form of spectral lines of a specific wavelength, causing the fla to display a specific color.
The fla colors seen in fla color reaction experints are the colors of these spectral lines, and each elent has its own unique set of spectral lines and therefore emits a distinctive color. For example, a magenta fla indicates the presence of the strontium elent, an erald green fla indicates copper, and a yellow fla indicates sodium.
Through this experint, if a new elent is found to exist with fla colors and spectral lines that are different from all known elents, then it is naturally classified as a new elent.
Richard was uncertain whether the fla color experint would work on the superheavy nuclear stable island elents he hypothesized, but it was still worth a try. After all, according to theory, the superheavy nuclear stable island elents already had electrons exceeding the speed of light, showing relativistic effects. Furthermore, it turned the Dirac ground state wave function into a fluctuating state, producing a series of magical effects.
If that was the case, then what was not possible?
Thinking this way, Richard gazed into the flas of the alcohol lamp.
The next mont, what appeared in Richard’s line of sight was a group of deep red, blood-like flas, a color not known to any elent. It resembled the color of the free energy elent light points he had absorbed initially.
Red, high energy reaction — could this be the so-called Fire Magic’s Fire Elent?
Richard thought to himself.
His eyes flashing, Richard then picked up the cobalt blue glass he had spent nearly a whole day creating, ready for use.
The cobalt blue glass was mainly used to filter out any potential interference from impurity elents’ fla colors, like the gold of sodium ions, which could easily overwhelm the colors of other elents and lead to false conclusions.
Looking at the alcohol lamp’s fla through the cobalt blue glass, Richard now saw a much paler deep red color, but it was still a unique color never seen before for any elent.
“Could it be…” Richard murmured to himself.
Undoubtedly, just this one experintal study could not prove much.
Because it was impossible to store too many of the different types of free energy elents within the Magic Origin, it would require many fla color experints to complete the testing of the hypothesis. In addition, to ensure accuracy, aside from the fla tests, other thods would be used to detect the elents’ properties.
It was a long-term task.
Nevertheless, Richard felt that at least he had made a promising start, at least it ant that the direction of the research was not wrong.
Everything else after that was just a matter of ti.
“Ti…” Richard murmured to himself again.
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