Chapter 67 No steel? Make a pot of soup!
"Make soup?"
Even Chen Zhiyuan, who trusted Zhao Di the most, was stunned.
Boiling soup with steel? What kind of new way of eating is this?
"Girl, you mean steelmaking?" Professor Liang asked tentatively.
Having spent his entire life in heavy industry, he is quite sensitive to the word "cook".
Steelmaking, with all that bubbling and bubbling in the furnace, is indeed similar to cooking porridge.
“Yes, yes! It’s steelmaking!” Zhao Di nodded vigorously. “You have to melt it all down, and then you have to add seasonings!”
"Seasonings?"
The group looked at each other in bewilderment.
Steelmaking requires the addition of additives, such as manganese, silicon, and carbon.
But could the "seasoning" in this little darling's mouth be anything serious?
Are they going to piss and mud in there again?
Professor Liang was very nervous.
The shipyard does have one steelmaking furnace, but it's a small electric furnace used for repairing parts, and its capacity is not large.
Moreover, raw materials are extremely scarce.
To think that you could forge a special pressure-resistant steel that could be used to build submarines is simply a pipe dream!
That steel, also known as "HY-80" steel by Soviet experts, has a yield strength of over 550 MPa.
With current domestic technology, even 300 MPa is a struggle.
This is a gap in materials science, and it can't be bridged by simply making soup!
"No, no, this is too ridiculous." Professor Liang waved his hands repeatedly. "Steelmaking is a high-temperature operation, it's too dangerous, we can't let the children get close."
"Besides, we don't have that recipe!"
"Who says there isn't one!" Zhao Di exclaimed anxiously, "The fairy uncle gave me a prescription!"
"We need to add that... that red stone powder!"
"And that sparkly sand!"
"And...and..."
Zhao Di scratched her head; some of the names were too difficult for her to remember.
She simply grabbed Lin Jianguo's hand and said, "Father, take me to the warehouse! I'll show you!"
Seeing his daughter's anxious look, Lin Jianguo made up his mind.
Since we're already here, let's go crazy with this little tyrant!
"Chief Engineer Liang, let her give it a try," Lin Jianguo said. "What if it works?"
"Back in the desert, she turned the saline land into black soil using urine and mud."
Professor Liang's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when he heard this.
Urine and mud turn into black soil?
This is even more mysterious than a myth!
But seeing Chen Zhiyuan and Zhao Tiezhu's "this is normal" expressions, Professor Liang's worldview was once again shaken.
Could this be... the world of geniuses?
"Fine! Let's give it a try!" Professor Liang gritted his teeth. "Anyway, that furnace is just sitting idle. At worst, we can blast a batch of scrap steel!"
The group arrived at the steelmaking workshop in a grand procession.
That small electric stove looked quite old, with black ash covering the walls.
Zhao Di directed Lin Jianguo to rummage through boxes and cabinets in the corner of the warehouse.
"This one! I want this one!"
She pointed to a bag of powder labeled "titanium oxide".
"And that one! That green one!"
That's nickel ore powder.
"I want the black one too!"
That's graphite powder.
Zhao Di picked and chose, selecting a whole bunch of random mineral powders.
Some are common additives, while others are rare metal powders that no one has ever heard of.
There was even a bag of cobalt powder that had been stored for who knows how many years and had clumped together.
“This…this formula…” Professor Liang looked at the pile of stuff, his brows furrowing deeply.
This is completely contrary to conventional steelmaking formulas!
Add so much titanium? And also cobalt?
Is this forging steel or forging poison?
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