Chapter 47 (1/2)
Quiz 47: Water
“Brother Meng Ming, is this really fine?” Huang Qiao Yi was slightly concerned She knew that Meng Ming had never performed an experis out “It’s best if you just let me do it…”
“It’s not a probleainst that kind of person?!” Meng Ming thought that, first and fore manner couldn’t lose to the opposite party’s It didn’tQiao Yi atching froe mistake
If I want to win, I’ll need to think of so pondered this for a bit His opponent was Qing Xin’s strongest chemistry student, an, he’d have to first think of some way to disrupt the other party’s experiment
Neither of the lab tables had anything on them The equipment was all stored in the cabinet next to the referee seat The teacher announcing the experiment objective told the staff behind the scenes, “Please prepare and bring up the chemicals”
With this order, the gazes of the spectating students all turned to outside of the building’s forest square exit—a few school staffout a two-tier shelf Each of the two layers had 10 reagent bottles, for a total of 20 bottles, all of which were filled with some colorless, clear fluid
These were the reagents to be used for this competition
After the shelf was aphone to tell everyone present, “There are 10 types of colorless, clear fluids that I set up, with a total of 20 bottles The ones on the top and bottoents! They’re all nuht” She walked up to the shelf to point this out “Basically, the top shelf’s 1 reagent is the saent In order to maintain the fairness of this competition, I’ll let the coents they want to use Firstly, can both parties each choose two bottles on the top layer, then hand the saents on the bottom shelf to the other party? In other words, each side will have four bottles of unknown reagents, and they will have the exact sa to your choices, I’ll choose another reagent bottle and hand it to both of you at the saents”
“So the co Qiao Yi understood it immediately “It looks like the stuff in the bottles is all the same, but, in reality, the components are different The opposite party has 5 bottles identical to ours”
“We don’t know the contents of the bottles?” Meng Ming asked “Then hoe do it?”
The teacher continued to announce, “This co to the situation Once both parties choose all of their reagents, I’ll announce the objective In addition, this objective is so that isn’t in the textbooks Does anyone have objections?”
“That’s exactly what I wanted,” Meng Ming and Sean said simultaneously
Everyone agreed, so the teacher continued, “First, let’s invite the guests to co’s side to choose first
“Brother Meng Ming, which number do you want to choose?”
“They’re all alike, either e still don’t know the objective…” Meng Ming casually called out, “1”
As soon as he spoke, the assistants on both sides walked up to the shelf to bring over reagent 1 on the top and bottom shelves to their lab tables
“I choose 10,” Sean said
In this way, Meng Ming chose 1 and 3, Sean chose 4 and 10 Now there were four bottles on each person’s table
“Alright!” The teacher said, “Everyone has finished choosing, so I’ll choose the last bottle” She turned around and considered the chemicals that the two of them had chosen, then knocked the here 9 was—
“Bottle 9 Can the assistants please co these over to their tables?”
After the assistants had ents and the shelf were lifted away by the staff The teacher returned to her referee seat Once she saw everyone’s state, she prepared to announce the objective
Huang Qiao Yi pointed at the five reagent bottles and said to Meng Ming, “We don’t knohat these chemicals are, so we need to first identify them”
“Identify? For what?” Meng Ming didn’t understand at all
“In other words, we need to figure out what exactly these five bottles contain,” Huang Qiao Yi said “Well, let’s listen to the teacher’s objective first”
The teacher cleared her throat, and the spectators gradually quieted down Everyone aiting for the objective that would require using these five bottles of reagents
“This coaphone and loudly declared, “Synthesis!”
Synthesis?!
Synthesis, or creating a product out of the available materials
“There are 05L of fluid within each party’s bottles! I ask both sides to do their utents on the tables to synthesize more products!” As the teacher said this, she fished out two 2L graduated cylinders from the equipment cabinet, and heavily placed theed—after the end of the experiment, I ask both sides to pour their coraduated cylinders! After inspection, the victory will go to the one that has the greatest amount of product!”
“Co, “It’s very simple, it’s a test of who can produce more”
Meng Ming understood this point
“Next, I’ll announce what you have totheain and declared, “The product you’ll have to make for this competition is—water!”
Water?!
Why is it…water?
The objective subdued everyone present! The two opposing sides, as well as the other students present, had never heard of a chemistry synthesis like this before—
“Synthesize water? I’ve only ever heard of synthesizing chemicals…”
“How do you synthesize water, it’s not stated in the books…”
“I understand, it’s probably pure water”
Huang Qiao Yi and the opposing Sean and Tho of this objective—that’s right, they needed to use these five colorless, clear fluids that had impurities dissolved in them to produce “pure water”! In more ordinary terms, they had to eliminate from these bottles any dissolved substances aside fro was still confused “What? Do these bottles not contain water…?”
Seeing that the surrounding people were slowly beginning to understand, the teacher continued to explain the rules
“The rules are sient bottles; second, if you want any equiprab it from the equipment cabinet, but only the assistants can retrieve it; third, aside fro equipment, you cannot leave the lab table; fourth, the allotted tio to the bathrooo now; once the competition starts, you will not be allowed to do so anymore!”
These were the rules After Huang Qiao Yi thoroughly explained the content of the experi still pondered it for a bit He saw that there was a rusty, old water faucet on the lab table and asked, “You mean, we can’t use this water?”
“That’s right,” Huang Qiao Yi twisted the faucet head “However, these are lab tables that have been h them…”
There was a large ah for the the competition