Chapter 287 (2/2)
“Do you mean the… alcohol?” Kyle couldn't believe what he had heard
“That's right, exactly the alcohol, you lycerol” Roland stated, “It is a very valuable raw material, whose importance is not inferior to the two acids”
“Okay,” Kyle shrugged and said, “However, as I already have stated it, I don't have the time to do it myself”
Roland exhaled slightly; onceit was to deal with the chief alche as you pick out several talented apprentices and demonstrate the process one tih I will recruit some of my subjects to carry out the production process, however, in the end, none of them even understands a word about chement
After pausing for a moment, the Prince continued to say, “You can also treat it as a never before practiced chemical test - if placed in the alchemic workshop, this process h to earn an apprentice the title of an alchemist”
Those lasts feords were probably what persuaded Kyle in the end, “If you say it like this, I’ll need an entire afternoon to teach the apprentice what they require”
“Excellent,” Roland s about the process is ensuring that enough caustic soda is produced” He wrote down the reaction formula on a piece of paper
Before the invention of the syntactic alkali production, natural soda was the most important alkali raw material The latter was mainly composed of sodium bicarbonate, which when heated would break down into sodium carbonate, carbon dioxide, and water Because it was accessible in great amount and also quite simple to process, it was still in use even instones with heat, followed by dissolving the the water, you can obtain a relatively pure solution of sodium carbonate solution
“Followed by heating it together with et a sodium hydroxide solution, for which you should easily be able to co method for yourself,” Roland explained ” To clarify, first distil, then h enough Then after it has cooled down, the concentrated solution will have fore amount of crystals”
These were the details written in the ”Elementary Chemistry” Since those two alkalis had several nicknames (such as caustic soda, lye, soda ash, sodium hyposulfite, sodium thiosulfate, soda crystals, etc), it was incredibly easy to get thee test The reason why he could still clearly remember it to this day was because he was initially required to know the textbook's related content by heart
“I understand,” the chief alche over the equation of the chehness, what's to be done in regards with the fat?”
“I will arrange people ill send it to you” Ani this era, however, during the previous seed collecting ht back the seeds for olive trees froave Border Town a reliable source for vegetable oil Even though there was currently only a small plantation at the castle backyard, but since Leaves had the ability to hasten ripening, harvesting a pile of fruits each day was no problem at all
The extraction of olive oil was also very simple When the fruit becath to squeeze the oil out and afterward sieved it so as to filter out the flesh and seeds
Finally, after a brief description of the requirelycerol production, Roland permitted Kyle Sichi to leave the office
From now on, when the soap factory started its production, Roland would obtain a steady strealycerol
And with glycerin, he had finally unpowder and powerful explosives
TN: Sodium carbonate
ED: saponification