Chapter 324 Diamond manufacturing technology, not doing your job? Zhu Gui: It has nothing to do with me!

End of the meeting.

A large group of teachers and scholars gathered around Zhang Shuo to discuss gravitational technology issues.

People from the aerospace, aviation and other departments treated Zhang Shuo as a treasure and lined up to ask him questions, hoping to take the opportunity to answer questions about new technological directions.

Zhang Shuo accepted everyone who came and it took him more than two hours to get rid of everyone.

As soon as he walked out of the venue, he saw Zhu Gui waiting outside.

“Academician Zhang, are you interested in visiting our base? The next experiment will be conducted the day after tomorrow.” Zhu Gui said.

He was waiting here just to invite Zhang Shuo to the experimental base.

The periodic gravitational field and the special outer layer were discovered by Zhang Shuo’s team, and some theoretical problems were only understood by Zhang Shuo.

Zhang Shuo thought about it and asked the others to go back first. He took Xue Baikun and Wang Qiang to the base.

He is also interested in the study of gravitational barriers.

His team discovered a compartment, but in-depth research is a technical issue and anyone can lead a team to study it. He is not very interested in similar research.

Not being interested does not mean having no interest at all.

If you do research for a long time, it’s really not interesting, but it’s still good to take a look at the experiments.

After Zhang Shuo agreed, he went there with Zhu Gui.

Zhu Gui’s experimental base is located in the mountainous area west of the capital, very close to the newly built ion cannon research base. There are also two troops stationed nearby, so it can be said to be very safe.

The group quickly arrived at the base.

After Zhu Gui brought Zhang Shuo and Xue Baikun into the base, they went to the main laboratory to visit the large equipment.

Their equipment is much larger than the gravity-generating equipment. The ring-shaped pipe that stimulates the gravitational field is placed upright on the ground. The surrounding protective devices and the empty space in the center of the pipe are connected together and seem to really form a door.

Zhu Gui pointed to a line in front of the door and said, “The gravitational thin layer will appear here.” He then pointed to the opposite side and said, “It will appear there as well.”

“We primarily studied through the compartments in these two locations.”

“During the experiment, materials will be sent in, or penetrated back and forth, with automated equipment…”

He continued to introduce.

The experimental equipment of Zhu Gui’s team is very large. The largest part is not the ring-shaped pipe, but the ion accelerator. Because the tritium element needs to be highly accelerated, the ion acceleration channel is more than two hundred meters long.

If compared with a particle accelerator, a length of two hundred meters is nothing, but ions are different from proton beams, and tritium ions will not automatically accelerate in a magnetic field environment.

The principle of ion acceleration is more complicated, and high acceleration is more difficult.

Of course, they don’t need to accelerate the tritium to anywhere near the speed of light, just fast enough.

Zhu Gui and Zhang Shuo walked together on the pipeline of the ion accelerator, checking the situation outside the pipeline from time to time and discussing experimental problems.

“The experiment was conducted twice. The first was a test and the second was a material experiment.”

“There was a clear break in the chemical bonds in the experiment, and the elemental substance appeared in the compound. We used this method to extract the iron.”

“But it’s not strong enough.”

“The chemical bonds are not broken 100% of the time, but there is a certain percentage, which we think is related to strength.”

“If the frequency of gravitational field changes is higher and the peak field force value is larger, the proportion of matter breaking will be higher.”

“It may also be related to time.” Zhang Shuo said after thinking.

“We have also considered this, so in the experiment after tomorrow we plan to keep the material in a single position within the field force range at all times.” Zhu Gui said with a smile.

In the experiment, the material is allowed to slowly pass through the thin layer. The reason why the material does not remain in the thin layer all the time is because the thin layer is too thin.

If you want to stand in the middle of a door for a long time, you will have to take up the time for other materials to pass through.

“If there is enough time, a larger proportion of chemical bonds will be broken, or even 100% broken, which would be great.” Zhu Gui is very much looking forward to it.

That is equivalent to discovering a very cheap technology for extracting single substances.

The extraction of many single substances is very complicated. For some special elemental substances, the extraction cost accounts for a large proportion of the selling price.

If the extraction technology is relatively poor, it is better to buy it directly than to extract it.

Now there is a new extraction technology that can quickly complete the extraction of single substances and consumes only electricity, so its application potential is enormous.

The group walked through the passage together.

After reaching the end, there is a dormitory for rest, and Zhu Gui also talked about the research prospects.

Periodic gravitational barriers have special properties and very broad research prospects. It can be said that they have unlimited possibilities. Perhaps some of their properties have great application potential or have a huge driving effect on the development of materials science.

Zhang Shuo asked with interest, “Professor Zhu, do you think this technology can help produce large quantities of diamonds?”

“Uh~~~”

Zhu Gui was a little stunned, then smiled and said, “Academician Zhang, you mentioned this at the meeting. Do you really want to use this technology to make diamonds?”

Zhang Shuo had nothing to be embarrassed about. He nodded directly and said generously, “We already have a technology that can make gold. Gold and diamonds are both jewels that our country admires. It sounds very interesting to be able to make gold and then diamonds.”

“You’re right, but it seems that diamonds have been artificially produced for a long time, right?”

“The efficiency is still very low.”

Zhang Shuo shook his head. “Besides, it’s not easy to make high-quality diamonds with that kind of technology.”

Zhu Gui said, “If it can be researched and diamonds are mass-produced, they will no longer be valuable, right?” He added, “Diamonds are not as widely used as gold. Diamonds can only be made into drill bits and are rarely used in other places.”

“Right.”

Zhang Shuo nodded affirmatively, “If it is manufactured on a large scale, it can’t be sold like gold, otherwise it will become worthless.”

“However, very high-quality diamonds will still have a certain value.”

“Can I make a little money by shipping a small amount?”

“Compared to gold, it’s nothing.” Zhu Gui shook his head in denial.

“At least you can earn enough money to cover your expenses, is that ok?”

“That’s for sure.”

The two chatted and walked to the rest area.

Zhu Gui sent them downstairs and asked someone to arrange their food and accommodation needs.

Zhang Shuo and Xue Baikun went to the second floor of the dormitory and entered a special reception room.

He lay on the bed, closed his eyes and thought.

Creating diamonds is indeed very interesting.

It may sound a bit exaggerated, but the research on periodic gravitational barriers has unlimited possibilities. Can diamonds really be created?
Do it when you think of it!

Zhang Shuo simply created a task–
【Task 4】

[Research project name: Research on manufacturing diamonds based on experimental equipment (Difficulty assessment: C.)]

【Progress: 5.187%.】

(The task can be canceled. The current number of research coins required to cancel the task is 0.)
(The remaining progress requires 95 scientific research coins.)
“100 missions?”

“It’s really simple…”

Zhang Shuo stared at the system task interface and felt a little unbelievable.

This study is overly simplistic.

He originally thought it would be very complicated because there might be situations where the technology was not up to standard.

For example, the periodic gravitational field is not strong enough.

For example, Diamond knows what special environment or process is needed, and the difficulty is naturally high. Now it is found that it is only C-level difficulty, and the experimental task of 100 scientific research coins can be completed easily.

In fact, even for the same C-level tasks, there are differences in difficulty.

There will be differences between 100 scientific research coins and 100 scientific research coins.

When it comes to experimental research, some experiments need to be carried out step by step, and then move on to the next step after a discovery is made. Some experiments are completed in one go, and the difficulty reaches level C only because of the high requirements for experimental equipment.

The current study is the latter.

Zhang Shuo spent five coins in one go and fully understood the theory and experimental direction.

He immediately sat up from the bed.

Xue Baikun was lying opposite him. He had just closed his eyes and was about to fall asleep. When he noticed Zhang Shuo’s movements, he also sat up and asked, “Director, what’s wrong?”

Zhang Shuo stood up and said, “Let’s go to the front together.”

“Go ask Professor Zhu for a few people. I need to calculate something.”

“…Can’t it wait until tomorrow?”

“Right now!”

They dressed quickly and walked to the lab together.

When Zhang Shuo saw Zhu Gui, he explained his purpose.

“How many people are needed? To do the calculations?” Zhu Gui was a little confused. He thought Zhang Shuo might have some inspiration, so he immediately sent a few people who were good at math to help.

Zhang Shuo took a few people to an office and began to assign work tasks.

He did do some calculations.

The calculation involves several aspects. Important parameters include the periodic frequency of gravity, the maximum intensity of the wave crest, and the properties of carbon. The purpose of the calculation is to calculate a ‘pressure value’.

‘Pressure value’ is the lowest value.

So there is no need to do detailed calculations, just get a rough result.

One hour, the calculation is complete.

After Zhang Shuo got the result, he breathed a sigh of relief and went back to rest with Xue Baikun.

The next morning was an experimental meeting. Zhu Gui kept asking about each group’s preparations and also paid attention to the testing status of the equipment.

The focus is still on the experimental design. They will conduct experiments on various compounds passing through the interlayer, among which iron compounds are the top priority. By keeping the iron compounds in the interlayer for a long time, they can test the effect of time on the breaking of chemical bonds.

After the key points of the meeting were finished, Zhu Gui also asked Zhang Shuo for his opinion, “Academician Zhang, what do you think about tomorrow’s experiment?”

“And give us some suggestions.”

“You are an expert among experts in this field!”

Zhang Shuo shook his head and said, “There is no problem with your experimental design. It has been done very well. I can’t say anything. Let’s wait and see the results tomorrow.”

Although it was just a compliment that was not really a compliment, Zhu Gui was still very happy to hear it.

This is also equivalent to affirmation.

Zhang Shuo continued, “I also have an idea, which is related to what we talked about yesterday.”

“what?”

Zhu Gui was a little confused. He thought for a moment and asked in surprise, “Diamond?”

“Correct!”

Zhang Shuo said, “I did some calculations yesterday. We can try it out experimentally. Using graphite as the material, the outer surface must have sufficient strong pressure…”

“The strength value must be higher than…”

He went into detail.

The experimental requirements Zhang Shuo mentioned are not complicated. It is just to put the graphite together and then apply special physical pressure, and the pressure must be higher than a certain value.

The compressed graphite is placed in a completely enclosed multi-layer pressure-resistant box.

Next, some heating is performed.

After being heated to a certain temperature, the box is controlled to pass through the periodic gravitational barrier at a slow speed.

And then, it ends.

In this process, the difficulty lies in the closed box.

Zhu Gui’s eyes were full of confusion. He thought that Zhang Shuo suddenly became interested and wanted to try a strange experiment.

Making diamonds?
It’s not that easy!
However, Zhu Gui still agreed, because the other party was Zhang Shuo. Even if it was just a sudden idea and there had been no discussion or analysis, he had to give it a try just because he spoke up.

“I’ll contact them later to see if there’s anything suitable for the experiment.”

“It shouldn’t be a problem. The Institute of Aeronautical Materials should have it, or one of their affiliated factories. We’ll definitely be able to find it.”

After Zhu Gui finished speaking, Zhang Shuo smiled and said, “If it can really be made, Professor Zhu, you must let me pick a few beautiful ones to take away.”

“That must be no problem!”

Zhu Gui didn’t care at all, “Once we’ve made it, you can take it all away!”

……

In the afternoon, a large sealed box made of alloy was delivered.

The box came from a material factory, and the person who transported it also introduced the parameters, including pressure bearing, strength, alloy material, etc.

Someone asked the question, “If all the metal in the box is fatigued, how much impact will it have on the pressure resistance?”

“This…is unclear.”

Metal fatigue is indeed a problem.

Zhang Shuo checked the box back and forth, and was not sure what impact metal fatigue would bring. He simply had someone modify the box, adding several layers of coating inside and outside, and adding a special soft protection layer on the innermost part.

After Zhang Shuo left, several researchers gathered around the box and started talking, “Director Zhang, are we going to use this box to make diamonds?”

“It seems like that. I didn’t understand what was said in the meeting this morning. Are you sure it’s made of diamonds?”

“This kind of research, even if it is feasible, can’t be completed in one go, right? Director Zhang, do you want to stay with us forever?”

“That’s great…”

“No way. I heard that he will leave the day after tomorrow, after the experiment.”

“Just give it a try?”

Zhu Gui also came over to check the box, and shook his head silently as he thought about tomorrow’s experiment.

Their experiment has attracted attention from many departments.

Every detail and every design of the experiment must be carefully recorded and reported. Even if it is just an experimental plan, a copy needs to be uploaded as a backup.

The experiment Zhang Shuo requested must be recorded, but it is a bit embarrassing to say it out loud: how to make diamonds? Try it with the equipment?
This sounds like a waste of time!

After Zhu Gui returned to the office, he began to think while writing his report, “I can’t let people think I’m not doing my job properly…”

“Let’s just write it as it is. Academician Zhang proposed it, and I can’t refuse.”

“The research belongs to Academician Zhang and has nothing to do with our team. Academician Zhang just borrowed our equipment to do an experiment.”

“Whatever the outcome, it has nothing to do with us.”

Zhu Gui wrote a few sentences carefully and then sent the report up.

(End of this chapter)