Scientific Travel

By the time Deng left the city, it was already dark. She attached the metal detector to the basket of her electric scooter and rode in the direction of home.

After riding for an unknown amount of time, the metal detector started beeping, waking Deng Yin from his sleep.

After measuring the approximate extent of the underground gold mine, Deng Yin began to collect the soil into his spatial storage.

According to the metal detector, this is a falconite mine, named for its falcon-like appearance. Its texture can be soft or hard and changes with temperature.

This ore is very rare and is mostly found in plains. It is mainly used to make lunar energy chips.

Because falconite is rare, lunar energy chips have also become very rare. In addition, solar energy chips generate far more energy than lunar energy chips, so very few businesses will install lunar energy chips.

Learning how to make lunar energy chips is an elective course, and few people take it because you have to bring all the materials yourself. Although the course isn't very useful, it costs a lot of money.

Deng Yin herself didn't have the money to take the course, but she had watched the instructional videos.

Whether it's a required course or an elective course, you can find instructional videos online.

However, it's difficult to learn just by watching videos. Many details won't be covered in the videos. Only by learning systematically with a teacher can you break down all the knowledge points and explain them in detail.

Although Deng Yin had never done it herself, it didn't look difficult in the video.

Most importantly, since we've finally come across Falconite Ore, even if we don't know how to process it, we can still take it back and sell it.

A large falconite mine can yield one ton of falconite ore. The falconite mine that Deng Yin encountered was small, and the falconite ore that could be extracted would not exceed one thousand catties at most.

The falconite ore emits a green glow at night, but its outer layer is covered by a stone more than ten centimeters thick, so no light can pass through.

Refining falconite ore requires extremely cold temperatures; at room temperature, falconite ore is in a liquid state. Once the outer layer of stone is broken, the liquid inside will spill out onto the ground, and it will only solidify again when placed in extremely cold temperatures.

Besides this method, there is another way to turn liquid falconite ore into a solid: by adding condensate.

The falconite ore, after the addition of condensate, will not turn back into a liquid even at a high temperature of 1,000 degrees Celsius.

Deng Yin could create a temperature that would solidify the falconite ore, but she couldn't stay at that temperature for long.

We still need condensate.

The process of making the condensate is very simple. Just combine the sap of the winterwood tree and the extracted sap of the basil plant in a ratio of 1:3, and then dry the mixture at high temperature.

After drying, light blue crystals will form on the cup wall. Grind the crystals into powder, and then use Cuiquan (a type of mineral) to dilute the light blue powder into a transparent solution.

The most difficult step is to dilute the pale blue powder into a transparent solution using emerald spring water. Emerald spring water has a very unstable structure, and it is affected not only by temperature, but also by air humidity and dust density. Therefore, even for the same weight of powder, the amount of emerald spring water required will vary.

When adding Cuiquan (a type of mineral), you must add it all at once, not little by little. If you add too little the first time, adding more will not only fail to dilute the color, but will actually make it darker.

To add enough Cuiquan spring water in one go, you need to practice many times; practice makes perfect.

However, the condensate liquid on the market now is all machine-made. They have powerful analysis systems, and even the slightest change in color cannot escape the lens's capture.