Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 1233: Chapter 595: Experiment that Swallowed the Earth?_1

Having ascertained where the energy had gone and identified the particle core, because a change of state had occurred due to spatial compression, targeted research could now be conducted.

Zhao Yi first went to the materials testing laboratory, which was in a city 300 kilometers away. A visit there was quite a distance to travel.

He went to the laboratory in the morning.

This laboratory specialized in testing metals that had been compressed. The majority of the data on the physical state of metals came from this laboratory.

The person in charge of the laboratory was Zhou Guixiang, whom everyone called Old Zhou. He was also an important materials expert in the Z-wave experiment team.

When Zhao Yi entered the laboratory, Zhou Guixiang was still busy with testing. A small, shiny piece of metal sat on the experimental table, its dazzling luster looking as though it was made of gold lacquer, but it was indeed a piece of pure gold, only compressed.

"Academician Zhao, you’ve arrived!"

Upon seeing Zhao Yi enter, Zhou Guixiang immediately greeted him, "I’m really sorry, I just heard you were coming and haven’t prepared yet."

"It doesn’t matter."

Zhao Yi waved his hand dismissively, unfazed. His itineraries were mostly confidential, and even if he decided to visit a place, he would only notify them shortly before arrival.

At that moment, Zhao Yi’s eyes also shone bright when he looked at the pure gold.

This piece of gold weighed exactly one kilogram. It was not the most expensive material in the experiment but certainly the most eye-catching.

After all, it was pure gold!

Before the experiment began, the gold had not been compressed; it was a long gold bar with a relatively dull color.

The color now was much more dazzling, and standing beside it, it looked like a counterfeit.

After the spatial compression, the gold bar had shrunk more than fivefold and was about the size of a little finger, seeming much more refined.

If one didn’t know better, it could be mistaken for a small piece of plastic, but in reality, it weighed over one kilogram.

Zhao Yi picked it up with cotton paper and immediately felt its weight; a small piece weighing one kilogram was quite uncomfortable to hold in the hand.

But Zhao Yi kept looking at it non-stop.

The gleaming gold bar!

This small gold bar’s market selling price was more than 200,000 yuan before the experiment. After being compressed, to say the price had increased a hundredfold was definitely an understatement.

Even without discussing its technological content, without mentioning its uniqueness in the world, just the shimmering color alone, even if only a small piece was cut off, could be sold as a treasure.

"Then let’s wait a while and choose this gold bar."

Zhao Yi pondered, "After all, we definitely need to take some materials back. Having the gold bar on the side during research will fill it with inspiration!"

"Yes, let’s do just that!"

Zhao Yi’s gaze on the gold bar became even more intense.

Clearly.

Zhou Guixiang didn’t see it that way; following with amazement, he said, "Academician Zhao, you’re amazed too, right? Such a small piece weighing one kilogram. When I first got it, I looked at it very carefully for a long time. It’s unbelievable."

"The most incredible thing is, when I cut a small piece off and studied it, I found that its hardness, melting point, and other physical properties all had increased several times!"

"Yet, its chemical properties have not changed at all."

"This is truly unthinkable."

Zhao Yi nodded, "Yes, that’s why I’ve come, to see the experiment myself. Let’s take—"

He looked at the gold bar, then immediately turned his head towards the aluminum alloy plate next to him, "Let’s use that aluminum alloy plate for the experiment, melt it down and then let it solidify. I want to watch this process closely."

"Indeed, using gold for the experiment is too extravagant, and its melting point is a bit too high. The outcome will be the same anyway, and it will also save on experiment costs." Zhou Guixiang said; he felt that Zhao Yi was just trying to save money for the experiment. After all, the value of gold was indeed very high, and in comparison, aluminum alloy was worth almost nothing, so using a lot of it wouldn’t hurt.

Zhou Guixiang then demonstrated the process of melting and solidifying the compressed metal.

Since the melting point of the aluminum alloy was only over 2000 degrees, it could be melted using a normal high-heat flame, and the experiment was quite rapid. freёwebnovel.com

After melting, the aluminum alloy darkened somewhat upon solidifying.

This was a normal oxidation phenomenon.

Zhou Guixiang also performed a melting and solidifying experiment with regular aluminum alloy for comparison. Both experiments showed that the end products were very similar.

"So the change is primarily in the physical properties, while the chemical properties show no change at all." Zhou Guixiang said, "But the conclusion about the chemical properties is not one hundred percent certain, as we haven’t conducted many experiments."

"Hmm."

Zhao Yi nodded in understanding. The chemical properties of a metal were too numerous to test each one; a few experiments had to be conducted for extrapolation.

However, Zhao Yi possessed causal reasoning and could determine from simple experiments that only the physical form had changed.

It was also concluded that space energy acted on the particles, causing an internal change in their form.

Although Zhao Yi and Zhang Qican had come to a conclusion together, the mentality facing a deduced conclusion and a confirmed conclusion is different.

He still felt quite shocked.

Previously, Zhao Yi had thought that the new material technology he had created was based on the material level, a kind of intrinsic compression method.