area51novel Chapter 381
Chapter 381
"Continue the experiment, pay attention to the consistent height of the hole, otherwise the test will not work."
This time, you don't have to run more than a hundred meters, fifty meters is enough.
"Okay, Lord!"
Li Tai handed the explosives of four taels and five cents of white sugar to Zhao Hu, Zhang Long ran back to the stone wall with the tools, and Su Chen and Li Tai waited there.
"How is it! Are you nervous?" Su Chen patted Li Tai on the shoulder and asked.
Su Chen saw that Li Tai seemed a little nervous, probably worried that the explosives would not go off after adding white sugar.
Li Tai nodded without answering, picked up the telescope to observe Zhang Long and the others.
"Young man! You are still young, don't be afraid of failure. As the saying goes, failure is the mother of success!" Su Chen comforted earnestly.
Li Tai put down the telescope and looked at Su Chen with a twitch at the corner of his mouth.
He was one year older than Su Chen, and Su Chen's tone sounded like an elder teaching a child.
Li Tai didn't want to argue with Su Chen, but he was deeply touched by what Su Chen said just now.
"Failure is the mother of success?"
"Why have I never heard of it!" Li Tai thought to himself that since it is a common saying, it must be something that everyone has heard of to be called a common saying.
Su Chen shook his head lightly and said contemptuously: "I told you to study hard, now you have heard it and remember it!"
Li Tai's face was full of disbelief.
Not long after, Zhang Long dug the hole and ran back, and Su Chen sent out the ignition signal again.
Then it was time to wait for the explosives to explode.
Li Tai became more nervous, and silently said: 'Failure is the mother of success! '
In fact, Su Chen was also very nervous. If adding sugar to the explosives had no effect or the power did not increase, it would not be possible to blow up that hard ore mountain with only two kilograms of earth explosives.
When the explosives without sugar exploded, the top of the stone wall did not collapse thoroughly enough, and the power was lacking.
"Explode!"
"Bang~!"
"Good! It's powerful!" Su Chen shouted.
This time the explosion was obviously louder. The stone wall was lifted up from the hole ten feet above the hole and fell down.
After the explosion, light smoke came out from the loose gravel and soil.
"Hahaha, it's not in vain. Let's continue with the last one."
"Zhang Long, dig a three-foot deep hole this time, and lower the hole."
After Su Chen laughed, he asked Zhang Long and the others to continue.
A three-foot deep hole is almost the limit, otherwise the fuse will be too deep and it will be difficult to burn.
"Su Chen, the paper tube is a little smaller this time. I think it will be more useful to make it with a capacity of thirty taels next time." Li Tai is now confident. The explosives with sugar are obviously twice as powerful as before. If the amount is increased, it will be more exciting.
Hearing this, Su Chen silently calculated. According to what Li Tai said, it would be two kilograms of gunpowder plus one kilogram of sugar.
"Haha, are you sure that the more sugar, the better? What if the power of this 9 liang sugar is not as strong as that of 4 liang 5 qian sugar?"
"Young people should be patient and wait and see the final result before making a decision."
"Understand?"
Su Chen started preaching again.
"Well, what you said makes sense. We need to see the final test results." Li Tai did not refute and agreed with what Su Chen said just now.
Su Chen was very satisfied with Li Tai's performance.
"The boy is teachable, and it is worth the teacher's painstaking efforts!" Su Chen patted Li Tai on the shoulder with great satisfaction.
Li Tai has reached the point of automatically filtering out Su Chen's words. No matter what Su Chen said, Li Tai would not care about him.
After more than 20 minutes.
"This time the hole took a little longer to dig. I guess it was because of the hard rock." Li Tai saw from the telescope that Zhang Long was digging the hole with great effort, not as easy as the previous two holes.
Su Chen looked at his watch, it was almost eleven o'clock.
"It's okay, don't worry. It's still early for lunch!" Su Chen said calmly.
Li Tai looked at Su Chen with disdain, "Who else is like you, who puts eating first?"
"Look at what you said, as the saying goes, man is iron and rice is steel, if you don't eat, you will be hungry."
"Do you think eating is important?"
Su Chen saw that Li Tai ignored him and continued to fool him:
"Young man, I tell you not to be unconvinced. You are still young now. When you are older, let alone eating. Even if you occasionally have a good shit, you will feel very proud."
"What is the most important thing in life? Eating, drinking, defecating and urinating!"
"When you are older, you will either have diarrhea or constipation. You say you can have a good shit, aren't you proud?"
Li Tai couldn't help it and cursed loudly: "You vulgar person, stay away from me!"
Su Chen said disdainfully: "Tsk! I teach you the principles of being a human being, but you are still not happy. I don't tell ordinary people these things."
"A rotten tree cannot be carved!"
Li Tai no longer paid attention to Su Chen, picked up the telescope to observeThe progress of Zhang Long and his companions.
After more than ten minutes, Zhang Long finally dug a three-foot cave and was running towards Su Chen and his companions.
Then, Su Chen and Li Tai became nervous again, carefully observing with telescopes.
Two minutes later.
"Why hasn't Zhao Hu ignited yet?" Li Tai asked in confusion, and only saw Zhao Hu looking at them and grinning through the telescope.
"Oh, sorry, I forgot to give the ignition command."
Su Chen was probably too nervous, and subconsciously hoped that the last explosive would be more powerful.
For a moment, he forgot to let Zhao Hu ignite the fuse, and Su Chen raised his hand to order Zhao Hu to ignite.
Zhao Hu ignited the fuse and evacuated quickly, running towards Su Chen and his companions.
After a minute, the explosives did not explode.
Su Chen and Li Tai were even more nervous at this time, wondering if it was because too much sugar was added that the gunpowder could not burn.
However, looking through the telescope, smoke was still coming out of the cave.
"Damn, it's not a dud!" Su Chen had no confidence at all.
"Lord, do you want me to go and take a look?" Zhao Hu suggested.
"Absolutely not, remember this in the future, you can only wait when you encounter this situation, and you must not go forward to check." Su Chen put down the telescope and warned Zhang Long and Zhao Hu seriously.
"Yes, we will remember it!" Zhang Long and the others answered respectfully when they saw Su Chen's serious attitude.
Su Chen nodded and picked up the telescope again to check the situation.
"Maybe the air in the cave is humid, the fuse..."
"Boom~!"
Before Su Chen finished speaking, there was a loud noise that shook the earth.
Su Chen and the others were standing a hundred meters away, and they could feel a slight vibration. At the same time, the soil on the stone wall was blown into the air, and some broken stones flew out in all directions.
"Good, good! This is powerful enough!"
Li Tai cheered excitedly, put down the telescope and ran to the explosion of the stone wall.
As long as this kind of explosives explodes and there are no flying rocks, it is safe to check it out.
"One nitrate, two sulfur, three charcoal, add some sugar, Big Ivan."
"The power is really amazing, at least it increases the power of the explosives by four or five times." Su Chen was secretly amazed.
Perhaps Su Chen and his team were lucky, and the amount of sugar confirmed in later generations was exactly half of the total amount of gunpowder. After adding sugar, the combustion structure of gunpowder changed, and the power can be increased by six times.
Su Chen quickly followed Li Tai and came to the stone wall.
"Tsk~tsk~tsk, the side was blown down, the explosion was really powerful!"
"Go back to eat, you can handle the rest by yourself."
Su Chen patted Li Tai and turned to leave.
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