Chapter 427: Guests From the South

Zhang Hao returned to Zhang's house late at night, but he didn't care about rest, so he went to the dock for inspection.

Half a year has passed, Dayang Group has built a total of 40 warships frantically, and now the fifth batch of ten warships has entered the outfitting stage. It is estimated that it will take up to 20 days to go to sea.

But what Zhang Hao came to inspect today was not other warships, but the giant ship in the largest dock that was also nearing completion—a super warship with a length of 270 meters and a design displacement of 35,000 tons!

The madness of industry is vividly displayed here. The profiles produced from Rancishan Xuantie Factory and Iron and Steel Factory are transported here by two parallel trains.

A ship board is more than 8 meters wide and 15 meters long, and such a ship board can only be transported by two parallel locomotives.

At this time, there were still boards being delivered piece by piece, and the overhead cranes and even the gantry cranes were constantly moving. A piece of I-beam, a piece of steel plate, etc., are neatly stacked in the warehouse.

From time to time, craftsmen can be seen transporting materials, parts, tools, etc. through spells, and the scene is busy. Right now, this warship has been under construction for half a year. After the successful research of the '20,000-ton class', they have been studying the 30,000-ton class until today. Now, it has entered the outfitting stage.

But what attracted Zhang Hao most at the scene was the welding. Now, welding technology has been initially mature. The new warships no longer use rivet structures, not a single rivet, and are all welded.

Because of the maturity of welding technology, the current super battleship was born. Designing a displacement of 35,000 tons is a brave and crazy attempt! That is to say, the steel cost of the Zhang family is actually very low, otherwise they would not dare to make such an attempt.

Zhang Hao looked here for a while, and after understanding the situation, he reconfirmed that he would officially go to sea in about 20 days. Zhang Hao smiled with satisfaction. Twenty days later, it happened to head north to explore Liuli Island and related routes.

After leaving the dock, Zhang Hao returned to the residential area. But from far away, Zhou Xueyao's research room was brightly lit.

Zhang Hao paused for a while, then turned to the research room. But I saw that no one was resting, and even some children were so excited that they didn't sleep, yawned, but ran around excitedly.

Zhang Hao was puzzled. When he walked to the front of the building, he saw Xiaozhu, the maid next to Zhou Xueyao, running excitedly: "My lord, you came just in time. Miss has discovered isotopes and has preliminarily perfected the periodic table of elements.

Just today during the daytime... Ah, it was yesterday's daytime. According to the periodic table of elements, the lady deduced a brand new metal element, which turned out to be a high-purity spiritual material, a spiritual material that we didn't know before. And we refined it in the laboratory!

This kind of spiritual material is very light, almost only half of black iron.

According to tests and calculations, this metal is widely present in the soil, and its content far exceeds that of iron. Moreover, as long as this kind of metal is extracted, it is a spiritual material, and it does not need to be further smelted and purified like black iron! Kind of like gold, silver and copper. "

Zhang Hao's footsteps stopped immediately. This thing...couldn't be 'aluminum'! Not to mention, if Zhang Hao remembers well, aluminum has one more neutron than proton, and the isotope of aluminum in nature is very rare, almost negligible.

Thinking of this, Zhang Hao asked, "Is this a silver-white but dark metal? If it is not treated, it is very soft, but it is harder than lead."

"That's right!" Xiaozhu shouted excitedly, then stopped suddenly, and looked at Zhang Hao suspiciously, "How do you know, my lord?"

"I guessed, haha... Think about it, this is lighter than iron, so it should be very soft..."

"But silver is much heavier than iron, and it's also very soft?"

Zhang Hao: ...

When Zhang Hao met Zhou Xueyao, Zhou Xueyao was discussing the periodic table of elements with everyone, and Wang Xuefeng and other elites from the Zhang family were under his command. Not only that, but Fu Yun's disciple, Ge Dong, also joined here.

Everyone discussed intensely. On the table in front of Zhou Xueyao, there were several irregular pieces of silver-white metal of different sizes, but the surface of this metal was slightly dull, obviously without the luster of silver.

Seeing Zhang Hao coming in, Zhou Xueyao's face flashed with joy; but she just sat behind the table and did not move. The discussion is very intense now, and what is being discussed is the naming of this brand new metal.

After Zhang Hao sat down and listened for a while, he said twice and stood up, "I have an idea. What we have discovered now is a brand new metal, so we should create a new 'word' to name it. .

The elements we have discovered so far fall into three categories.

Metals, gases, and nonmetals are also nongases.

Therefore, I want to make characters like this: metal elements, and make characters with 'golden characters'. We can borrow names from copper, silver, lead, steel. Non-metals are named after the word 'stone side'. For example, carbon, sulfur, phosphorus, etc. For gas, directly use 'qi' as the radical. Such as we have named 'oxygen', 'nitrogen' and so on.

Right now, this new metal is ranked 13th in the periodic table of elements, spelled according to the phonetic alphabet, similar to the pronunciation of 'Lu', so let's name it 'Aluminum'! "

While talking, Zhang Hao condensed the word 'aluminum' with magic.

Zhou Xueyao looked at the "character pinyin" on the periodic table of elements, and the corner of her mouth twitched a little. The pronunciation of the character pinyin of the 13th element is similar to the sound of "Luo", which is quite different from the sound of "Lu".

It is said that Zhou Xueyao compiled a set of character pinyin with characters' radicals, array symbols, symbols of chipu, etc., and now this character pinyin has been widely used in the education of Beidou Academy.

The periodic table of elements is represented by the repeated superposition of symbols, which is similar to the superposition method of 'heavenly stems and earthly branches'. In this way, each element symbol has at least two characters in pinyin, which can roughly spell out a pronunciation.

But the pronunciation of "aluminum" is too different, right?

Seeing Zhou Xueyao's expression, Zhang Hao immediately sent a bright smile—an obsessive-compulsive disorder attack. In other words, if this element is not named 'aluminum', I will not be familiar with it by another name.

The name was finally determined, but everyone did not rest, but wanted to continue discussing and standardizing the refining process of aluminum, striving for industrialized production.

"Okay, okay!" Zhang Hao got up, "Everyone, I am very happy that you can work so hard, but I am also very worried. Everyone, you need to devote some time to practice, and you also need to dedicate some time. calm yourself down.

We still have a lot to study, and the periodic table of elements may be just the beginning.

For example, what are the elements made of? Can we artificially create elements that do not exist in nature?

If you want to explore the deepest secrets of this world, what you need is to rest well, practice hard, and strive to break through the stage of transformation into gods and have thousands of years of research time!

Instead of staying up all night here. "

Ge Dong had an opinion: "But...we want to..."

"Let's rest, there are many things you want. Look at what each of you has done, each of you has dark circles under your eyes, and you feel drowsy when you walk.

How about this, tomorrow is a day off, everyone has a good rest. If you are exhausted, you can only stare blankly if you want to study in the future. "

After finishing speaking, Zhang Hao stepped forward and pulled Zhou Xueyao away, Zhou Xueyao blushed: Zhang Hao, are you really thinking about everyone?

An hour later, Zhang Hao put his arms around Zhou Xueyao's soft and delicate body, laughing triumphantly. Zhou Xueyao pinched Zhang Hao a few times before asking angrily, "The pronunciation of element 13 is obviously not 'Lu', but you skillfully sketched out the word 'Al'. Tell me, do you know anything?"

Zhang Hao looked at Zhou Xueyao in surprise, so careful? ! But Zhang Hao won't answer this question... It wasn't until dawn that Zhou Xueyao lay softly on Zhang Hao's body and fell asleep.

Zhang Hao didn't get up until noon. According to the plan, the fleet of China Southern Airlines should return today.

Since eradicating mirage dragons and shark dragons along the way, the fleet has never encountered any crisis. On the sea, it seemed that calm had returned. After that, as Dayang Group produced more and more warships, the sea routes became more and more busy.

However, today's fleet is a fleet communicating with Tianmojiao. This is the third and largest communication between Dayang Group and Tianmojiao.

The fleet refueled at Skeleton Harbor before moving on; the news was brought by the previous fleet.

Sure enough, the fleet returned in the evening. A total of three Zhenyuan-class warships and five Iron Duke-class warships appeared in the port mightily.

But Zhang Hao saw at a glance that there was an acquaintance on the bow of the battleship:

Red Lotus taught Zuo Dharma and Flower Baixiang!

"Why is this old lady here?" Zhang Hao felt his scalp tingling for a moment.