Chapter 35

Naturally, Lena doesn't know what Charlotte thinks of him. He confirms Charlotte's work progress and asks her to take a rest. Then he goes back to his principal's office, where Claire is waiting for him.

"This is the latest issue of alchemy, truth and the rainbow tower observer monthly..."

Claire read out a series of names according to the catalogue in his hand, and finally added.

"... and, of course, the monthly alchemist Griffin, which was sent to you free of charge by the other editor's office."

She pointed to the thick stack of books on the desk, which were the top academic journals. It cost nearly 50 gold coins to purchase these journals, which made Claire very painful.

The price of academic journals published in the current period is the highest. When there are multiple issues, the price will decrease due to timeliness and inventory clearing. Therefore, in order to save costs, many schools choose to postpone the purchase of journals for a few months. For example, in the past 50 years, crescent College has been keeping a one-year delay in purchasing these journals.

On the one hand, not all schools need the most advanced research on magic. The goal of many schools that attach importance to basic education is only to cultivate a ring of mages, or even simply to popularize common sense of magic for nobles. Academic journals are not necessary for them.

On the other hand, these academic journals are really expensive. Take truth, the most comprehensive one. A current version of truth needs two gold coins. On the mainland, a standard gold coin can be exchanged for 100 silver coins, while a silver coin can also be exchanged for 100 copper coins. In short, a Book of truth is worth 6000 bottles of coke.

In a world where knowledge represents power, intellectual property is the most valuable right.

Fortunately, Lena has made a lot of money in the past two weeks by relying on coke, which is necessary for the next research.

"Thank you."

Lena told Clare that the director had changed her maid's dress and put on her old robe, which made her feel a little sorry.

"Is coke OK?"

Clare already knew about the theft of Antoine's Alchemy workshop. At this time, he was worried that Piram had a big family and a big business, and it was difficult to guarantee that he would not do anything extraordinary.

"The bait has been put out. It depends on whether this big fish can take the bait."

With a smile, Lena looks at the journal in front of him.

"Mr. Claire, can you pour me a cup of coffee?"

"I'm not a maid!"

Clare said, bulging his cheek, but seeing that Lena had opened the academic journal, he could only sigh and stir up the coffee beans and hot water.

Lena is now engaged in learning.

He has always been worried about the lack of understanding of cutting-edge knowledge in his review opinion, which makes Lena have a little doubt about himself.

In the final analysis, this is a magical world. Although most of the physical laws are the same as those of the earth according to the experimental phenomena, Lena still does not dare to easily put his cognition to death. If something unexpected happens in the future, maybe his head will explode.

Lena has now decided to gradually test his knowledge bit by bit from the beginning, while carefully building his world view to avoid accidents.

First, Lena opened alchemy and scanned the catalogue.

Some conjectures about the order of elements and the process of verification -- Lanchester stanian, legendary mage.

The properties and compounds of the new element "gmuel" -- Maria instein, seven ring mage.

"Properties and compounds of the new element" Kaila "obtained by electrolysis of caustic soda, discussion on the application of electrolysis" -- Cornwall penzans, master of seven rings.

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there is no doubt that at this time, the main trend of the alchemy department is to find new elements. The mages used various methods to dismantle materials, some of which were successful, others failed.

"But electrolysis?"

Lena looked at the paper. Electrolysis was an important discovery in the history of geochemistry. Because many elements were active and easy to react with other substances, it was difficult to see their true appearance for a long time. It was not until scientists used electricity to decompose substances that they found these naughty elements.

Among them, of course, are hydrogen and alkali metals.

Although hydrogen was not discovered by electrolysis, electrolytic water is still one of the most familiar chemical experiments, and its chemical reaction equation can be regarded as the first reaction equation that most people came into contact with.

Lena soon finished reading that paper. The new element "Kaila" obtained in it should be some kind of alkali metal, sodium like or potassium like. Obviously, because of long-term cognition that water is the basic element, the high-level mage did not try to electrolyze water.

"Or electrolytic water doesn't get the normal results?"

Lena wrote down his thoughts in his notebook, and decided to prepare the relevant experiments when he had time recently. Now that someone has proposed the electrolysis method, the decomposition of water is imminent."Here you are."

While Lena was thinking, Claire had already served a cup of coffee.

This guy, his mouth says no, his body is quite honest.

Lena didn't think of it. After thanking him, she took a sip of the warm liquid.

The temperature of the coffee is just right, and the amount of sugar added is what Lena likes best. It seems that the maid life of the previous week has let Claire grasp the taste of Lena.

"You're getting better at making coffee, Mr. Claire."

Lena said with a smile, which made Claire blush, stomp and leave the principal's office without looking back.

With a helpless shake of his head, Lena looked at the catalog again, and the title of a paper caught his attention.

Discussion and conjecture on several properties of fire element in combustion reaction. 》Fleming Ernst, master of the six rings.

Is this paper on combustion reaction the "frontier theory" mentioned in the review?

With curiosity, Lena turned to the number of pages of the paper.

In this paper, the author first shows several combustion experiments, and raises questions about the quality problems. The process is clear, the logic is clear, and even Lena can enjoy watching.

"It seems that the mages are also aware of the incompleteness of combustion theory and try to solve it. My paper is just the tip of the iceberg."

Reiner laughed at himself and looked down.

The author soon put forward a conjecture that the fire element has negative mass, that is to say, the more the content of fire element in the material, the smaller the mass of the material. He applied this theory to the previous experiment and perfectly explained the phenomenon of mass change in the experiment.

"This explanation always feels unconvincing."

Lainer said to himself that the concept of negative mass is very suspicious without mentioning whether the element of fire exists. If there is negative mass, why does the element of fire have this property? Is there any other substance with such negative mass and why does it produce negative mass?

The proposal of this concept is accompanied by a series of questions, but none of them has been answered by the author.

It was late at night after reading all the journals. After a simple dinner prepared by Mrs. Freya, Lena went to bed early.

Because from tomorrow, he will start designing experiments.

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