"I think it is extremely inappropriate to hastily define a new element without rigorous experimental verification." Lin En shrugged. If he had just obtained the Demon Stone and said that this thing was a radioactive element with strong radiation, it would be too fake.
All the congressmen present were terrified and looked at Raphael with unfriendly eyes. They remembered that someone had previously wanted to paint fluorescent paint made of radium on the walls of the royal capital.
Some people even began to wonder if Raphael was an undercover sent by the Holy See! This is to disintegrate the entire parliament from within! I am not, I did not... Raphael was speechless for a while, but fortunately, at this time, Lin En explained.
"Don't worry, everyone. Although radium is highly radioactive, the amount of radium in a demon stone is limited, and it has been divided into more than 20 pieces. Short-term contact will not cause damage."
He had verified this a long time ago, and wizards have strong physical fitness and their magic has a certain ability to isolate radiation. This is why Lin En did not rush to remind them.
Of course, if you study this element for a long time without taking any protective measures, you are seeking death!
"Master Raphael, you'd better change your clothes quickly." Lin En looked at the other person's robe that was emitting yellow-green fluorescent light with a strange look on his face. He admired the man for having the courage to apply highly radioactive radium directly on his clothes!
Raphael glanced at the listless and scary-looking mice in the cage and couldn't help but smile bitterly. "There should be a way to treat injuries caused by this kind of radioactive radiation, right?"
He had been wearing this clothes for a whole day, and unlike others, in order to study the self-luminous properties of radium, he had been dealing with alpha particles every day in the past few days.
This means he may have been tricked...
“If treatment is started early, the problem can be solved. It’s nothing more than cell damage or cancer.” Lin En said comfortingly.
The systemic damage caused by this kind of radiation is indeed difficult to treat with technological means. The only way is to use a treatment cabin to repair the whole body. Otherwise, the various sequelae are enough to kill a person.
It is much easier to deal with on the magical level. A great wizard who is proficient in plastic surgery should be able to deal with those diseased cells and use magic potions that are powerful enough to regenerate severed limbs. As long as it is not to the point of cancer throughout the body, it can still be saved.
It just takes a while, and some suffering is inevitable!
After Lin En's explanation, Raphael finally breathed a sigh of relief. At least he was saved...
However, this also means that the plan to make a lot of money from radium paint has to be cancelled...
"Then how can we resist the radiation from this radioactive element?" Vittorio asked. Since they needed to study this new element, contact with it was inevitable.
"Elements with higher density have strong radiation resistance, such as lead!" Lin En reminded.
Lead has an atomic number of 82 and a density of 11.3437 g/cm3. It is the non-radioactive element with the largest atomic weight. Due to its commonness and large reserves, it is used on a large scale in radiation prevention and control.
At this point, Lin En did not forget to remind the councillors present to pay attention to safety when conducting research...
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This magic discussion meeting lasted until four in the morning, nearly ten hours in total!
The congressmen who walked out of the meeting room were all in high spirits. Whether it was the new magic of the magic star that claimed to be able to defeat the Holy See, or the exquisite star orbit element model, they were undoubtedly explosive news and soon spread with the discussion of the congressmen.
There is no doubt that magic science will enter a new stage from today, and even the foundation of magic science will be rewritten because of this, because Lin En has proved with facts that elements are not the most basic substances that constitute all things.
Not only can it continue to be divided, but its shape is not a sphere as in mainstream theories, and it does not have a so-called shell!
The alpha particles and electrons that make up the atomic nucleus became the new original matter in the eyes of wizards.
And they will soon figure out what the so-called alpha particle is and gain the true power of the element from it!
The wizards who specialized in combat and did not participate in the discussion listened to their colleagues excitedly describing the exquisiteness of the new elemental construction theory, and they couldn't help but feel a little regretful that they could not witness this historic moment with their own eyes.
Of course, this kind of "widespread" dissemination and discussion is limited to official wizards. Now is a time of war, and the confidentiality of such important intelligence must be kept very careful.
The craze for magic research also led more wizards to join the experiments. If the wizards who went to explore the uranium mines had not found a large number of demon stones and uranium ores, there would probably not be enough to share.
The people of the capital soon discovered that a large amount of seawater was being transported to the capital from the port a hundred miles away, and the price of lead ore also skyrocketed...
Lurking in the dark, the spies sent by the empire were puzzled by this strange phenomenon.
Lead ore is fine. According to the intelligence they collected, it is used to make ammunition for muskets. It is normal to consume more in order to cope with war. But why transport so much seawater from far away? Is there a problem with the water supply in the capital? The spies of the empire could never imagine that the wizards transported tons of seawater here just to decompose it and find the tritium element that Lin En mentioned...
With the joint efforts of the entire parliament and thousands of official wizards, the three major problems that had troubled Lynn were quickly solved one by one.
On the evening of the fifth day, Lin En, who had completed the model of the large nuclear explosion, took several speakers to a hollowed-out mine to conduct a test explosion.
For safety reasons, only the minimum critical mass was used.
No one knows what happened exactly, but the entire mine collapsed that day, and the royal capital, dozens of kilometers away, also felt a strong earthquake.
Rumors spread in the capital, and some frightened citizens even believed that this was divine punishment, that the wrath of God had descended! (End of this chapter)