Chapter 5754 If it were a chemist doing it himself
After Bescia was seen through, she felt a little embarrassed. Her desire for scientific exploration overcame her slight sense of confusion. After adjusting her mood, she followed Qiao Nian's words and said, "I really want to ask you a question. Next, I will use Prex Is the process wrong? I see you are smiling."
"The Prax process is widely used because of its efficiency and success." Qiao Nian stared at Bethia, narrowed his eyes, and chuckled: "But I think the Butx process is more suitable for you."
She pointed to several people busy extracting liquid.
"The Butex process utilizes two solvents for separation. Undiluted dibutyl carbitol is used for preliminary separation and purification of uranium, and TBP diluted with kerosene is used for plutonium purification."
"The process is too complicated," Bethea said.
Qiao Nian is neither arrogant nor impetuous: "Everyone says that dibutyl carbitol can effectively extract hexavalent uranium, tetravalent plutonium and hexavalent plutonium, but rarely extracts trivalent plutonium. Through the reaction of ferrous sulfamate aqueous solution Extraction can separate plutonium from uranium. However, due to the high viscosity and density of dibutyl carbitol, which is close to water, and the need to use two different extraction agents, the process is complicated, so it has been replaced by the Prex process. "
"But I think...chemical experiments are just like being a human being. Sometimes the results obtained by omitting the process too much may seem to be the optimal solution, but more possibilities may be lost."
Bethea was deep in thought.
Qiao Nian's posture relaxed: "You can think about it yourself. I just provide you with a choice. I don't force you to do what I say."
"I believe what you said." After a brief consideration, Bethea raised her head, her expression became firm, and she turned to the black man and said, "Today we will try a different method. Let's try the butex that the chemist said."
She tilted her head and explained to Qiao Nian: "I have been using the Purex process before, and I have never thought of changing it. I have used it in hundreds of experiments before, and the results were almost the same after one more time and one less time. I also I want to try something else." Qiao Nian shrugged: "It's your own business to do research. It's more important for you to believe in yourself than to believe in me. You don't need to explain to me."
Bethea was relieved when she heard her say this, "Thank you, chemist." This time she said thank you to Qiao Nian for the second time today.
Qiao Nian accepted her thanks without comment this time, moved his eyes away, and waited for the results of Bethea's experiment.
The experiment is a time-consuming and boring thing. More than 20 people waited in the third laboratory for a full day.
The experimental results just came out today.
They were very successful in separating plutonium salts, and the amount obtained this time was much larger than ever before!
"Damn, it worked! I got goosebumps." The black man cried with joy. This result was related to the improvement of the purification degree in their previous experiments, and also to the change of the extraction method.
The person responsible for recording the data immediately recorded the results into the small computing computer he carried, and then obtained first-hand information through computer calculations.
She immediately reported to Bethea: "Captain, the amount of plutonium salt we obtained using the Butex process this time has increased by 3% compared to the previous use of the Prax process!"
Bethea immediately looked in the direction of the girl, surprised and delighted. She couldn't restrain her inner excitement and wanted to share the result with Qiao Nian right away.
The chemist just gave some casual advice and they could improve by 3%. She had no doubt how much they could improve if the chemist personally led them to conduct this experiment!