Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 825: Chapter 437 No One Is More Rigorous Than You_2

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The testing procedure seemed a bit irregular, but since the material was divided into several portions, it had no impact.

Soon.

Li Rongmao announced his results with an exclamation, "It exceeds 1600 degrees!"

"Really?"

"You didn’t read it wrong, did you?"

"That’s great!" ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com

The people standing in the distance immediately grew excited; their eyes widened as they looked over, their faces filled with anticipation.

At that moment, Shen Binghe called out, "1570 degrees!"

The sample he tested was cold-rolled and it was expected to have a slightly lower melting point.

Li Rongmao quickly shouted, "Around 1620!" His tone was clearly excited.

"Huff~~~"

Upon hearing this figure, everyone gasped in astonishment. They had not anticipated that, on just the second experiment, they would be able to increase the melting point of the product by another hundred degrees from the first experiment’s results.

"1620 degrees!"

"This must be the melting point of the world’s top nickel alloy, right? It far exceeds the performance of turbine blades from Country E’s imported engines."

"It’s almost catching up to the data of M Country’s most advanced fighter jets."

The latest top-of-the-line fighter jets developed by M Country employed cutting-edge technology. The engine data they released indicated that the melting point of the turbine blade material was over 2000 Kelvin, which is to say, it exceeded 1700 degrees Celsius.

This was also the only nickel alloy material in the world confirmed to have a melting point above 1600 degrees Celsius.

Now, the latest research product had a melting point exceeding 1600 degrees Celsius, which meant it surpassed all other nickel alloy materials. At minimum, within the public domain, it was the nickel alloy material with the second-highest melting point in the world. However, a point that must be considered was that, in the data released by companies in M Country, the rhenium element accounted for about six percent of the nickel alloy, while in their second experimental approach, the theoretically produced material had only a four percent rhenium content.

The rhenium element at a six percent ratio has a melting point over 1700 degrees Celsius.

The rhenium element at a four percent ratio has a melting point of 1620 degrees Celsius.

The proportion of the rhenium element indicates the composition of the material, as well as the technical difficulty and the cost of the material. Their newly developed material had a lower rhenium content, which implied a relatively lower cost, and the melting point did not drop much, indicating that the technological difficulty was not inferior to the former.

"Ours is even better, with a melting point of 1620, just one hundred less, but with two percentage points less rhenium in the element ratio!"

"Our product has better utilized the properties of rhenium!"

"This can already be regarded as the most advanced and best performing, right? And it is sufficient to meet the needs of the world’s top aviation engines!"

"Truly a major achievement!"

"If we announce it now, wouldn’t it cause an international sensation?"

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Everyone discussed excitedly.

The testing continued.

Zhang Hongtao, Li Rongmao, He Guilin, and Shen Binghe conducted the strength test on the product together. After more than two hours of rigorous testing, they jointly declared, "The strength hasn’t changed compared to the initial assessment and has improved from the previous experiment." freeweɓnovēl.coɱ

"Extremely successful!"

The final evaluation needed no further comment.

With the melting point of the product increased and the strength not reduced, it indicated that the rhenium was perfectly integrated into the alloy composition.

Everyone immediately fell into a new round of excitement.

Zhao Yi’s expression, however, was calm; the experimental results were expected. The improvement in product performance was certain because he had eliminated those steps that were detrimental to product performance from the outset. Even without subsequent discussions, the performance of the product was bound to improve; the only uncertainty was by how much.

After this experiment, he gathered several conditions.

Among them, one of the newly proven steps was still harmful to the performance of the product. In the next experiment, he would eliminate the harmful step and continue to evaluate those steps that were unhelpful or uncertain.

Zhao Yi made a decision, quickly gathered everyone, and laid out the next plan.

"Are we going to continue with the evaluations?"

"Academician Zhao, the strength has not decreased, which means the integration of rhenium is very perfect. This can already be considered a finished product, right?"

"It’s not about whether it could be considered; it is a finished product!"

"I don’t think we need to continue, do we? If we release these results now, it would cause an international sensation."

Zhao Yi shook his head and frowned, "Your expectations are too low. We’ve only conducted two experiments; there’s definitely still a lot of room for improvement. I hope that the melting point of the product will reach at least 1700 degrees."

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The others looked at each other, and they could only shake their heads and smile wryly in agreement.

This was the first time Zhao Yi had explicitly stated that the research and development goal was to raise the melting point to above 1700 degrees. They also hoped to reach this target, which would truly be world-leading. However, they always felt it was unrealistic. It’s an indisputable fact that domestic alloy material technology lagged behind international standards, not just in the field of aviation engines but in other areas as well.

The issue with rare earths alone revealed a lot.

China was a superpower in rare earths, exporting a range of rare earth products, yet it was mostly foreign companies that truly utilized the rare earths, extracting their rare elements for use in their own alloy material products.

They purchased rare earth products, created finished alloy materials, and then sold them to China for a sizable profit.

This was the gap in technology.

Therefore, even though the melting point of KO3A was raised to above 1400 degrees and the research included the addition of rhenium, they were merely thinking about continuing to increase the melting point by another hundred degrees to catch up to the international advanced level, which was already quite remarkable.