Chapter 36

When the first ray of sunshine in the morning came into the square of crescent college, Lena had got up, put on a clean and comfortable shirt, picked up the notes he had made these days, and was ready to go to the laboratory.

From the tower where Lena lives to the experimental building, we have to go through the atrium. Several students have already got up early. Even if today is a rest day, some noble ladies with good tutoring also adhere to the healthy habit. Some practice magic silently in the corner of the open square, and some are ready to go to the classroom to study by themselves with books.

The morning light flickered on the dew, and the coolness of the night did not fade. Lena said hello to the girls on the side, but the noble ladies were obviously still alert to Lena. Only a cheerful student returned his greetings. Lena didn't care about these details and went straight to the real laboratory.

There are many vacant classrooms. Lena takes the key that Claire gave him and comes to one of the laboratories. He takes out the necessary experimental equipment from the cupboard and starts to assemble the experimental equipment.

In this paper, the process of electrolysis experiment is described in detail. For Lena, who has apprenticeship magic, the biggest difficulty may be the arrangement of electrolysis array.

But of course Lena has a way.

Just after he had assembled all the equipment, Mr. Claire came here with Charlotte.

As a ring mage, Claire is obviously able to support the operation of the electrolysis array, so Lena "invited" her to participate in the experiment.

As for Charlotte, Lena thinks it's necessary to cultivate her scientific spirit in advance. By the way, she can relieve her tiredness of working and painting recently, so she also let Claire take her.

"What experiment are you going to do?"

Claire looked at the sink full of water, a little confused.

"Electrolysis."

Then he spread out Alchemy to the paper of seven ring mage Cornwall penzans.

"Electricity and several special solutions can decompose some active elements from compounds. I designed this experiment to decompose a substance that people thought could not be decomposed in the past."

Following Lena's words, Claire and Charlotte look where he points, but there is nothing there but a basin of water.

"What kind of solution is this, or some special liquid, but it feels like ordinary water in any way..."

Claire asked, but soon she understood Lena's intention.

"Well, no, you mean, water?"

Hearing Claire's speech, Charlotte widens her eyes and looks at Lena in disbelief.

Water, one of the four basic elements proposed by master Hohenheim, represents life. In the field of ancient magic, magic is not even a faction like element and alchemy, but is simply divided into four factions: Feng Shui and Huodi. Since ancient times, water has been considered inseparable.

In fact, at the beginning of the establishment of modern magic, mages tried to decompose water in various ways. They burned, froze and attacked water many times. They succeeded in getting some substance from water, but it was later proved that it was just a kind of impurity. Up to now, water is regarded as the cornerstone of the world and one of the four basic elements.

"I've said before that I'll try to break down the water when I'm prepared enough."

"But in the past those people's attempts, even if heated, the water would only turn into steam. The mages have tried all kinds of means for hundreds of years, but still failed."

Claire argues that she feels that Lena is talking nonsense emotionally, but after the previous experiment, she looks forward to Lena's success intellectually, which makes her in a dilemma.

"But they didn't use lightning."

What lainer said left Claire speechless, and then he added with a little jest.

"Why don't we make another bet? I miss you in maid's dress, Miss Claire."

This sentence made Claire blush, a little resentful.

Xia Luo looks at their interaction and sighs helplessly.

"Since there is no objection, I will talk about my own ideas."

Lena did not directly carry out the experiment, but gradually, on the one hand, also to pave the way for the future.

"First of all, assuming that water is a compound, the reason why it can not be decomposed is that the elements that make up water are too active to react with other substances. Is this assumption reasonable?"

"Well, if water is really a compound, then that's OK."

Clare said reluctantly that most of the elements found at present are metals that exist in nature as simple substances, and the elements with particularly active properties are rarely heard.

"Then, according to Mr. penzans' paper, the new element 'Kaila' obtained by electrolysis is a very active metal element, which can even react directly with water."

Then, as I said before, Lena pointed out the paragraph about the nature of the new element "Kaila" in the alchemy. I have to say that this Cornwall penzans is worthy of being a high-level mage. His experiments on the nature are quite comprehensive, and he has almost perfectly described the nature of this element.What these high-level mages lack is only some inspiration. Most of the time, they just "haven't thought of it yet". If they are given a spark of thinking, they can create colorful modern theories without Lena's hands.

Thinking back to the laboratory, the reaction between "Kaila" and water should be a kind of displacement reaction, by which "Kaila" replaces the hydrogen in the water to produce hydroxide and hydrogen, at least on earth.

But Mr. penzans ignored one point, that is, there is gas generation in the reaction, which is very normal, because according to the description, the reaction process is very violent, and it is easy to ignore the gas that was not in the predetermined range.

In his paper, he described the alkaline solution obtained by dissolving "Kaila" in water, which can precipitate a substance. In his opinion, it is the compound of water and "Kaila", not that water has been decomposed into two parts.

"After reading this paper, I began to boldly assume that there are two kinds of water, at least one kind of active elements. If we use electrolysis method, we can get these two kinds of materials. So far as the logic is concerned, there should be no problem?"

Reiner confirmed that there was more doubt in Claire's eyes at this time. The teacher nodded silently and did not ask any questions.

"Well, if in the experiment, the mass of water decreases and other substances with unique properties are produced, then my hypothesis is true. Water is not a basic element but a compound. If the opposite is true, then my hypothesis is not true."

With that, Lena arranged the experimental apparatus, pulled out two wires from the electrolysis array as positive and negative electrodes, and put them into two tubes filled with water and upside down in the water tank.

"Ready, let's start the experiment, Mr. Claire."

Lena signaled that Claire slowly started the electrolysis array.

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