Chapter 282

"Chief, I understand the principle of this mortar. You're right. This kind of mortar firing sub caliber shells can't give full play to the real power of this kind of small gun if the propellant is not strong enough. " Brother Gai said with certainty.

As an alchemist proficient in chemical experiments, after he came to the gaoshu tribe, he was very interested in the high-power gunpowder mentioned by the stone bear. Moreover, he was really willing to do all kinds of experiments, so since burning out the cement, he began to explore and experiment all kinds of new gunpowder himself.

However, this new type of gunpowder can not be obtained by experiment. It is really not easy to find a way to produce more powerful gunpowder without anyone's advice.

It's just like those masters who discovered Xiaohua Mandarin oil and no flooding gunpowder in the original historical time and space discovered the preparation methods of these fierce drugs by accident. It's not so much their knowledge accumulation that invented these fierce drugs as the lucky goddess pointed their brains with her finger that they were lucky to get the method of making these fierce drugs.

If there is no accident, in six years, Europeans will produce a kind of ferocious ferruginous drug, but this ferruginous drug, which is more powerful than pressing the ladder, is only suitable for dyeing in the eyes of Europeans.

This kind of medicine is called "bitter but not sour".

In 1771, the British Wolff used concentrated sulfuric acid and concentrated nitric acid to treat benzene powder to obtain a yellow solid, which is picric acid, but it has been used as a yellow dye since it was made. No one thought that this is a very powerful strong medicine, which has been used as a dye all over the world for 100 years without revealing the "true face of Lushan Mountain".

Since 1849, picric acid has been used as a yellow dye for silk dyeing