“The sandwich is so delicious.”

Claire couldn't help but make a pleasant sound as he felt the rich gravy between his lips and teeth, as well as the taste pleasure brought by the mix of fresh vegetables.

As a result, she surrendered to the tempting aroma, so she asked Lena for a sandwich, and immediately immersed in the wonderful food and couldn't extricate herself.

But soon, Claire noticed Reiner's profound eyes and immediately turned his face away and said in a somewhat vague tone.

"Don't get me wrong, I just want to learn how to make this sandwich, so..."

Lener smiled when he heard Claire's crappy explanation, but did not expose it, and turned to Xia Luo.

"Xia Luo, what do you think of that paper?"

Xia Luo heard Reiner call her name and raised her head. She was still holding Reiner's paper in her hand. After thinking for a while, the girl answered.

"The views expressed in the paper are very clear, and the relevant proofs are also very comprehensive. To be honest, I can't believe that the experiment here is the one I did before."

After a pause, the girl continued.

"But I don't understand one thing very well, it's the content of the second to last chapter."

When she opened the paper, Xia Luo pointed to one of the pages, and the title here reads "Chapter 4: Exploration on the Change of Quality During Experiment". In this chapter, Reiner focused on the basic view of the law of conservation of mass, which in Xia Luo seemed to be difficult to understand.

Before this, Xia Luo had never considered what changes would happen to the mass of objects before and after the experiment, nor did he understand the value of the discussion.

Because in her concept, it seems to be natural that the quality remains unchanged, but after Reiner's mention, Xia Luo realized that there seemed to be another mystery in it.

"Why does it take a step to change when one substance becomes another substance after combustion, the total mass of the product before and after the reaction will not change? From this experiment, the mass seems to be transferred from limestone to white rock and this special gas. What method is used to achieve this?"

Listening to Xia Luo's question, Reiner nodded slightly.

This girl is indeed well-versed in alchemy and she realized the problem so quickly.

"You want to say, does the quality have a carrier?"

Reiner was tempted by his words, and Claire was a little surprised.

In Master Hornheim's alchemy theory, mass is an inherent property of an object, representing the amount of elements contained in an object. In his opinion, elements have a unified mass. The more elements an object contains, the greater the mass. The mass of an object within a unit volume is called density.

For example, rocks and metals have different density due to the number of soil elements. In a unit volume, there are more soil elements that make up iron, while there are fewer soil elements that make up rocks. This is the fundamental difference between the two as different substances.

However, in Leiner's paper experiment, part of the mass of the limestone obviously ran into special gases, which seemed to involve the transformation of elements. After all, according to common sense, the soil element should be heavy and stable, completely different from the flowing and light wind element.

But Master Hornheim has long asserted that the four basic elements are the most basic forms of objects, and they cannot be transformed into each other. All other matter is condensed by the four basic elements.

If we can really find a way to transform elements into each other, it would be a shocking discovery.

Even though the running water can turn into steam after heating, the mages have long learned that those are not real gases, but just small water droplets that cannot be observed by the naked eye. No one can achieve the real elemental transformation.

From this point of view, that special gas is a new substance composed of soil elements and wind elements?

That's so strange.

Because Reiner's argument seems to be saying that basic elements are not really "basic", they can be further subdivided, which completely violates the current alchemy theory.

As Claire was in deep thought, Xia Luo shook her head gently.

"I don't know that relying solely on this experiment, I don't think I can find decisive evidence yet."

After all, in the experiment of producing white rock with the heating of limestone, the substance was not completely converted, nor did something appear out of thin air. Without clear gas composition, it cannot be said that the special gas must have come out of the limestone. They need more direct evidence.

Alchemy has always been an experiment-based discipline, and any theory may be overturned by special experiments, but on the other hand, if it cannot be reproduced with experiments, then all conjectures are meaningless.

"I also think that perhaps the four basic elements are not the most basic substances, such as water, which may be composed of certain substances. Of course, these are all conjectures. I may find opportunities to do some experiments to verify them recently."

Reiner pretended to be helpless and said that although he had ten thousand ways to prove that water is actually a compound, it seemed too silly to put it rashly. After all, the first paper can be said to be inspired by Xia Luo's experiment, and the second subversive paper would be suspicious if it was proposed so quickly.

He also needs to wait for his paper to ferment in the academic community. Everyone starts to change their ideas and then proceed step by step. Although there may be accidents, for example, an academic master relies on Reiner's paper to inspire inspiration and decompose water to this situation, it is better than Reiner being caught and sliced ​​for research.

"Mr. Principal, have you already got a idea?"

Xia Luo was a little surprised. These questions they didn't dare to think about in the past. The principal in front of him, who seemed a little cynical, had already started thinking about whether he was talented or was crazy?

"I don't have a clue yet, but I have a general direction."

Reiner decided to terminate the topic. The first paper has not been published yet, so don’t consider things that are too long-term.

"Let's not mention this for now. Teacher Claire, I need to leave school tomorrow, and you can go with me."

"ah?"

Claire obviously hadn't come back to his senses from the discussion just now, and when he heard Reiner call his name, he answered hesitantly.

"Go, where to go?"

"Didn't I say before that we need to find an alchemy workshop that can produce Coke."

Reiner asked back, looking at Claire with a care for the disabled.

"Well, I, of course, remember, I mean, where are we going to find an alchemy house?"

Claire hurriedly concealed her embarrassment, but her embarrassment made her feel a bit pitiful.

“It’s right here.”
Chapter completed!