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Chapter 8 The Top of Alchemy (7)

Avicenna's words caused a stir. John de Rupisissa could no longer bear it and rebuked: "Avicenna, alchemy is an extraordinary secret discipline. We cannot understand it quickly, but we must not laugh at the people who try to understand it. Closing alchemy - this prejudice will put the world in darkness forever!"

"Understand it? John, I ask you, do you alchemists admit that gold is the most perfect metal?"

"Yes, gold is the most perfect and noble of all matter in nature, and its nature is the most stable, just like..."

"As perfect as a god, is it?" Avicenna snatched the topic. "You alchemists understand metals just as magicians understand gods. Have you ever seen that magician fully understand all the properties of gods?"

"Your Son of God in the Heavenly Empire..."

"The Son of God is born to be a god, not an ordinary person. For a mortal, no matter how powerful the magic power he possesses, it cannot be equivalent to a god. All you can do is to imitate poorly. No matter how similar the gold you make is to natural gold and how many tests it has withstand, it is still inferior to natural gold - people can only compare the properties they can understand, and can only imitate the properties they can understand. But human cognition is limited, and in places where people cannot understand, the difference between natural gold and alchemy gold still exists."

"Avicenna, alchemy cannot be completely equivalent to magic." Razi also refuted, "Man cannot fully analyze God's perfection, but he can completely analyze metal. Gold is just metal, and it is under our control."

"Well, the current votes are one-to-two, I'm at a disadvantage." Avicenna turned to the other two committee members, "How do you think of our argument just now? Can alchemy really make perfect gold? Is there any need to exist?"

The two committee members whispered in a serious expression for a while, and finally, the tall and thin committee member came forward and said to Lazi: "Our opinions are currently consistent with Avicenna unless you can show us how to analyze gold."

After hearing the two committee members say this, the alchemists' hearts suddenly became cold.

The so-called analysis is to separate the four elements of air, water, fire and earth or sulfhydryl mercury from gold. Things like branches can be separated by burning them with fire. Fire is burned as combustible substances, gas is distilled out as oily substances, water is distilled out as wet substances, and soil is retained as residues. Metals are a little more troublesome, but alchemists have various methods to separate their properties.

However, the nature of gold is extremely stable. At present, the most they can do is to turn yellow finance into gold and water, and the nature of gold has not changed at all.

Only Avicenna clapped his hands in the crowd and said, "This is a fair and wise judgment." Then, he looked at Lazi with a smile: "Lazi, didn't you say you wanted to analyze the nature of gold when you were at the school gate? This is a major issue related to the abolition of the school. As a committee member, you can't stand up and say it, right?"

Although Lazi gritted his teeth with hatred, this kind of thing had exceeded his ability. He wanted to curse and rush forward to punch Avicenna in the face, but this would only put the university in a more disadvantageous situation.

He lowered his head and asked in a low voice: "It's not possible with my ability. Can I postpone the time for a few more months?"

He surrendered his only choice at the moment, even if it would inevitably bring Avicenna's ultimate ridicule.

However, his words were interrupted by a sudden explosion. Although the sound was not loud, Avicenna was so scared that she threw the book in her hand to the ground. This caused a burst of laughter from people. Avicenna was a little confused. She bent down to pick up the book, patted the dust, and then pretended that nothing had happened before, "Which guy ignored the review of the committee and was doing experiments on his own? Let's go and take a look with me."

The explosion came from Ella's laboratory. A strong black smoke was floating out of the stove.

"Ahem, Amy, don't move lab stuff!"

Amy's face was blown to the point of darkness. She looked at Ella with innocent eyes and asked, "Why is this happening? I think His Majesty heated it just now?"

Ella used her body to protect the liquid in a beaker like a treasure, and shouted: "You must use solid heat to heat with a closed container, and you must pay attention to controlling the heat! Many things will turn into gas at high temperatures. If the container is not strong, of course it will explode! Fortunately, what you put in is not a dangerous item, otherwise the 'King's Bath Water' I finally made will be blown away by you!"

Avicenna shrugged open the door of the room with a dark face, and the black smoke rolling out from inside made his face darker. He said angrily: "Are you a tutor or a student? What are you doing inside?"

At this time, the group of alchemists also rushed over. Ella saw so many people coming at once, thinking that the explosion just now made her fail in the exam, and her confidence in speaking suddenly became three points weaker: "It's... evaporating gold."

"Haha, volatile gold! This is the second time I have heard this alchemy joke today! Ask your mentor Lazi to see if he can do this! Why don't you understand? Gold is the most stable metal, insoluble in any liquid, and cannot be used to make it volatile! Any attempt to change the nature of gold is to do useless work, just a waste of research funds..."

Avicenna's words came to an abrupt end, because Ella threw a small piece of gold into the middle-aged liquid in front of him. A large number of bubbles soon appeared on the surface of the nuggets. After a while, the liquid was dyed yellow. As time passed, the yellow gradually deepened and slowly approached orange, and the gold disappeared in it.

"It's dissolved! It's really dissolved!" Amy screamed in surprise, "When His Majesty just said he wanted to prepare a bath water that would dissolve the king, I thought His Majesty was teasing me!"

"Is the thing you threw in just now really gold?" Avicenna asked pretending to be calm.

"Let me try it." The squishy commissioner stood up and prepared to throw a Nomisma into the solution.

Ella stopped and said, "Wait a minute! I will evaporate the gold next! Nomisma is not pure gold, which may affect the subsequent observation steps!"

"This is the third time I have heard the joke of volatile gold today. It's better to say less boring jokes in the future." Avicenna stared into Ella's eyes, "Don't let us test, are you guilty?"

Ella had no choice but to agree: "If you have to test it, it won't have a big impact anyway. It just so happens that I may not use enough gold, and the volatility phenomenon in the future will not be obvious. If you are willing to produce gold, that would be better..."

"Stop using such words to scare people. I don't believe that this liquid can dissolve real gold coins!"

Avicenna pulled the short and fat committee member away, took out his own money bag and swayed provocatively at Ella, and then poured dozens of gold coins inside into the beaker's solution.

Like the gold nuggets I put in before, these nomismas were soaked in the solution and a large number of bubbles soon emerged.

The onlookers exclaimed a burst of marvel.
Chapter completed!
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