The pick-up process was extremely low-key.
After the two Il-76s landed at the airport, they were pulled into Monster Industries' exclusive hangar by a tractor.
Then the cabin door opened. Two peons drove a large forklift and transferred the coffin-like lead cabinets one by one to a heavy container truck.
A few hours later, the lead cabinets arrived at the Longxitan factory.
In the underground base, a highly industrialized rare metal purification factory was already set up, but the scale was not large. The daily production capacity was at most 100 tons.
This was because when the factory in the Soto Rainforest was completed, the metal purification work would be carried out there.
At that time, pieces of high-purity silvery-white dysprosium would be directly transported by air.
In the highly clean and sealed underground factory, Ye Qing was wearing a protective suit. He was extremely excited as he watched the peons cut open the lead cabinets and take out piles of gray brown metal ingots.
These were all raw materials with a metal purity of 80% and dysprosium content of about 8%.
In front of Ye Qing was a silvery-white metal cylinder shaped industrial equipment. At the end of the equipment, there were a large number of reactors and a huge metal furnace.
They were purification equipment, and the peons had already begun to transport these metal ingot raw materials, stacking them in a vacuum arc furnace for the first step of smelting work.
The extraction method of rare metal ores was both simple and complex.
It was simple, but it was simple enough that some criminals secretly organized people to steal from mines. They only needed to drill dense deep holes in the mine and then inject specific chemicals into these deep holes to react with the rare metal ores and make the internal metal elements oxidized and dissolved. Then the solution was extracted from the deep holes and injected into the pool for further processing.
How to process it?
It was roughly divided into three types: acid method, alkali method, and chlorination method. The extracted solution contained a large amount of rare metal elements. Using the principle of chemical change, they were reduced to crystals. Finally, these crystals were ground into powder to obtain the rare metal raw materials that could be sold.
Why did the country continue to steal rare metals? It was because using these large-scale chemical raw materials that could be purchased at will, they could extract rare metal raw materials from the raw ores.
These raw materials were piled up in the shed like flour. Each bag of smuggled out could be sold for tens of thousands of yuan.
But this method seriously damaged the natural environment. Usually, if a hole was drilled into a mountain and a liquid chemical was injected into it, the vegetation on the entire mountain would wither.
During the chemical reduction process, the extracted solution required a large amount of water. The criminals directly discharged the polluted water into the lakes and rivers, and the only result was the death of aquatic life on a large scale.
This was a simple purification method.
The complex purification method was the one being used in the factory at Longxi Beach.
The peons took the raw materials from the previous mini factory and cast them into ingots through grinding and magnetic selection. They threw them into the vacuum furnace and heated them to 3500 degrees Celsius to vaporize all the metallic substances inside. Then, the metal gas was directly introduced into the centrifuge, and the different metal molecules in the metal gas were further purified and separated by the gas centrifuge method.
The gas centrifuge was just a simple word.
It represented an insurmountable height in the industrial field.
This was because mastering this method meant mastering the purification of enriched Uranium-235 from uranium ores.
Originally, Ye Qing could have chosen a lower cost chemical reaction purification technology. With the strong ionization sewage treatment system, Ye Qing could avoid any water pollution problems. However, the gas centrifuge method could not only be used to separate the various single metal molecules in these rare metals. It could also be used to lay the foundation for the purification of the calcium-uranium-mica ores mined in the mining area.
Ye Qing did not intend to make an atomic bomb. To make an atomic bomb, it required tens of thousands of centrifuges to work in parallel.
But the energy tower needed to input materials to produce more energy, and enriched Uranium-235 was currently the best material available.
Using the energy tower to power the centrifuge, when the gas centrifuge was turned on, Ye Qing, who was standing in the factory, suddenly felt that the world was connected to a high-power vibrator. His brain was also stuffed with one, and even his blood was vibrating quickly.
There were hundreds of centrifuges in front of him, and each centrifuge was rotating at 100,000 revolutions per minute.
What kind of concept was this?
There were a lot of supercars on the market that claimed to be able to blow up the street. The highest speed of the engine could reach 10,000 revolutions per minute, and in the case of 10,000 revolutions per minute, it was a miracle to maintain it for more than five minutes.
The centrifuges in front of him were rotating at 100,000 revolutions per minute, and this was its normal operating speed. It had to be maintained for more than a day.
However, in the case of 100,000 revolutions per minute, the hundreds of centrifuges in front of Ye Qing did not produce any vibration with the naked eye, and there was not even a phenomenon of shell resonance.
This showed that the spindle balance of the centrifuges in front of him had reached an incredible level of technology. And the noise around Ye Qing was not the mechanical roar of the engine, but the feeling of every molecule in the air vibrating.
In front of this industrial equipment, even if there were 10,000 supercars, what was it?
Can the supercar engine be used with magnetic levitation bearings without any physical contact? The supercar engine spindle can be achieved with a straight line that is close to perfect, and the internal crystal structure is neatly arranged. Even if it is cut into hundreds of pieces, the weight error of each piece is not more than a hair, that is, the weight of 0.5 grams?
It is impossible. The centrifuges in front of Ye Qing were more technical than the centrifuges used by the big countries to separate Uranium-235. This was also the reason why Ye Qing chose to hide in the underground base. The factory outside had a set of chemical purification equipment that would produce a lot of chemically polluted water.
After staying in the sealed factory for less than two minutes, Ye Qing ran out with sweat all over his head. Although the industrial power was shocking, the human power could not be violated.
However, the final purification result of the centrifuge could be observed by Ye Qing through another piece of equipment.
The equipment was called a gas sedimentation chamber, and the weight of the metal molecules was different. The centrifuge could separate the heaviest metals in turn. For example, scandium, lanthanum, cerium, dysprosium, the different densities of these metals also caused the different weight of the metal molecules.
The gas centrifuges used by the big countries could separate Uranium-235 and Uranium-238 from the uranium element.
It must be known that Uranium-235 was only 1.6% lighter than Uranium-238, but under the high-speed rotation of the centrifuge, the slightly heavier Uranium-238 would be thrown to the periphery, not to mention the rare-earth metal elements with a greater molecular weight difference.
At nine o 'clock in the evening, in the underground base of the factory, the metal elements separated for the third time slowly gathered in the sedimentation chamber.
These silver glowing gases, after cooling, were directly sprayed on a layer of transparent glass substrate, slowly accumulating higher and higher like snow.
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