"I discovered a brand new nitro dye," Tom said, taking out a small glass beaker, where some yellow powder lay.

"Since you asked me to study synthetic dyes, I have wanted to collect all the existing synthetic dyes in the world. In addition to what you said, the aniline purple used for the British royal family, I just recently got a nitro yellow dye, which is trinitrophenol, which is not as famous as aniline purple, but has been widely used in the field of silk dyeing.

After getting the trinitrophenol sample, I wanted to see how the difference between the sample I prepared and the sample. I tried to synthesize trinitrophenol.

but……

The synthesis of trinitrophenol requires the products of coal chemical industry. In Europe, coal chemical industry is already very mature, but here I cannot buy a large number of coal chemical products. In this way, even if the experiment is successful, it will not be able to produce on a large scale in the future.

So, I tried to replace it with petrochemical products.

I succeeded!

The yellow dye in my hand now is trinitrotoluene. You see, it looks very similar to this trinitrophenol!”

Doug looked at the two yellow powders that looked very similar in color and silently took a half step back. Although he knew that this was useless, if any of these two things exploded, he would be affected by taking another ten steps back.

The trinitrophenol that Tom searched for was made by chemical methods in the 1970s and 1771.

It is a yellow crystal, bitter in taste, and soluble in water.

However, after the preparation was successful, it has not been applied to the field of dyeing.

Until 1856, a graduate student from the Royal College of Chemistry in the UK accidentally mixed potassium dichromate into the sulfate of aniline when he was trying to synthesize the antimalarial agent cinchona cream, that is, quinine.

As a result, burnt black residue appeared in the flask.

At this point, the graduate students already knew that they had failed.

When washing the flask, he felt that the black substance was organic and should be insoluble in water. It was difficult to wash it with water, so he poured alcohol into the flask to clean it.

However, after pouring in alcohol, the asphalt-like black residue suddenly dissolved into a dazzling purple color by alcohol.

After that, this purple synthetic dye was valued by the royal family and became the exclusive color of the royal family.

This graduate student also established aniline purple synthetic dye factory and gained huge wealth.

Other businessmen were also ready to move when they saw the huge market of aniline purple.

However, the patent of aniline purple is in the hands of graduate students, and it will take another twenty years to wait for it to expire.

However, if they were asked to develop synthetic dyes themselves, they felt that it would not be worth it to pay so much money.

However, the smart businessmen still came up with a new way to take advantage of the situation.

Find all the compounds recorded in the past and test them. There must be compounds that can be used as synthetic dyes.

In this way, trinitrophenol, which was tested in 1771, was successfully successfully aniline purple in 1856, and was turned out by merchants and became a yellow synthetic dye.

Now, three years have passed, and the number of compounds that have been excavated has become quite large.

However, these compounds are always not suitable for large-scale dyeing applications due to various problems.

The azo dyes prepared by Tom under Doug's induced are already in the field of synthetic dyes and are relatively mature in the later stages of synthetic dyes.

However, this is something Doug knew. For Tom, with comparison, he could understand the superiority of azo dyes.

However, no matter how he compared it, Doug did not expect why he suddenly compared it to the nitro group.

The word "trinitrophenol" sounds a bit unfamiliar, but its other name is "picy acid", which is more famous.

In the history of another world, pico acid was synthesized by humans in 1771, entered the dye field in 1856, and then in 1871, a new worker in a French dye workshop could not open the pico acid bucket and smashed it hard with a hammer, causing an explosion, and many people were killed.

The dye workshop owner discovered that picric acid was actually an explosive.

Trinitrotoluene, which has a very similar structure to picric acid, is another explosive that is more famous than picric acid - tnt.

Doug retreated because he felt scared when he saw these two explosives in Tom's hands.

However, picric acid and tnt are already very safe explosives compared to nitroglycerin, which are both yellow.

Nitrglycerol is an explosive that will explode during transportation.

Pyric acid is used as fuel for so many years, and it did not explode until the worker hammered it hard. Compared with nitroglycerin, it is already very safe.

Tnt is even a good baby who will not explode even if the bullet passes through it.

Even if it only explodes when the boiling point is 240 degrees Celsius, it is restrained and heated directly in a boiling pot with water until it melts. It is poured into the cracks of the stone as a plastic explosive, and then detonates after solidification.

However, safety is safe, Dougle still has no confidence in Tom.

Tom has introduced so much and is a little tired. His voice is a little hoarse, but even though his voice is hoarse, he said excitedly.

"Do you know that the trinitrotoluene I prepared can explode? It's only a small bit, but it exploded on the fire. My God!" Tweezers appeared in Tom's hand. He used the tip of the tweezers to pick up a little bit of trinitrotoluene and showed it to Doug.

Doug didn't know if Tom was trying to kill himself with trinitrotoluene as he did now.

It would be a miracle if this is the way to commit suicide, and the arms are intact and undamaged.

Tom seemed to know Doug's idea, and he smiled and said, "How could I try it myself! I asked my assistant to try it! Well... he had already lost an arm!

But what is an arm?

All he lost was an arm!

What we harvest is a brand new explosive!

Doug!

Doug!

Are you very happy too?”

"I... am very happy." Doug admitted that he was also very happy, but he still reminded, "If you want to cook the picy taste, don't roast it on the fire."

"What did you say?" Tom asked, wondering if he was deaf in his ears.

"I said! Don't put the picy and sour on the fire and roast it!"

"Oh! You said you shouldn't bake the picy sour? I'm very embarrassed, it's too late." Tom lowered his head in shame.

"What are you..." Before Doug finished speaking, he heard a "bang!" sound coming from the forest behind the hut.

The smoke of gunpowder slowly rose in the forest, gradually igniting the fire, and roasting the dry forest.
Chapter completed!