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At around six o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Ji finally charged the last magic circle.

He took a slight breath and looked at the sun that was gradually setting in the west, and at the 'Naga Ghost Tree' that was gradually coming to life under the setting sun.

From his pocket, he took out the metal block he found among the ashes of the 'evil creature' he killed in the afternoon.

The setting sun shines on it, reflecting gray colors.

"Interesting!" Xu Ji commented.

He remembered that when he discovered this thing, it was still blue.

Now, it has turned gray-white.

It's like a piece of hazy glass, but sunlight can't penetrate it.

Xu Ji curiously used his magic power, opened his Dharma Eyes, and examined this strange piece of metal.

But it was discovered that under the observation of the Dharma Eye, this thing was releasing traces of gray-white substance.

"Like uranium?"

Xu Ji scratched his head, his chemistry level was very worrying!

Now, I have lost the ability to compete with junior high school students.

After thinking about it, Xu Ji picked up his phone and took a photo of this small piece of metal.

Then, he opened the reinstalled and logged in Weixin and sent this photo to Professor Chen Ang.

Then he typed a consultation: "Professor, I found an unknown metal... I feel that it seems to be some kind of brand-new metal element!"

…

Chen Ang was leaning on the sofa in the office, holding his mobile phone and looking at the recharge interface on the screen in a daze.

He had just received Tan City's special consultant's allowance.

Twenty thousand yuan after tax!

Very generous!

The most important thing is that my wife still doesn’t know that he has such a huge amount of money!

Therefore, at this moment, Professor Chen is high-spirited and impassioned!

Finger resting on the recharge button on the screen.

My eyes were on the options of 648 and 328, and I hesitated for a long time.

"I have money...it's not too much to top up with 648, right?"

However, the moment I pressed it, it moved to 328 next to it.

A mask of pain immediately appeared on his face.

648 was a little reluctant to give up, but 328 felt that he was being treated too badly, and was vaguely unconvinced.

"What are you afraid of?"

"A manly man! Why be so timid! I have the final say on my allowance!"

As Professor Chen Ang spoke, he took a deep breath and pressed the 648 recharge button.

Then my fingers couldn't press it down.

While he was struggling, a pop-up window with prestige information appeared at the top of the phone screen.

When Professor Chen Ang saw it, he immediately cut out the Genshin Impact interface with relief.

"I'm not cowardly!" he said, "It's entirely the financial backer that makes the difference!"

Open Weixin and take a look at the pictures and content sent.

Professor Chen Ang's expression immediately became extremely serious.

He looked carefully at the picture sent by Xu Ji, and his brows furrowed even more tightly.

"New metal element?" Professor Chen Ang looked carefully at the small metal block in the picture.

That thing was off-white and very small.

The edges are rounded and the transparency seems to be low.

If anyone else had posted such pictures and words, Professor Chen Ang would not even bother to deal with it!

These days, civil science is rampant!

Every year someone claims to have cracked the secret of perpetual motion and mastered the technology of cold fusion.

As for such small things as Goldbach's conjecture, overturning Newtonian mechanics, proving the existence/non-existence of the Big Bang, etc., people are making breakthroughs every day.

Just a new element?

It's clothes!

In the civil science forum, there may be one such person announcing his latest findings and evidence every minute.

However, the person who posted the picture was Xu Ji.

His big benefactor is also a mysterious figure that Tan City and even the whole world are currently focusing on!

I just serve as a consultant for him, answering some mechanical and engineering problems from time to time, or go to school to find some colleagues for him to study some mechanical transmission problems.

In less than a month, Tancheng City Finance paid him a consulting allowance of 20,000 yuan!

The explicit or implicit hints from relevant parties also made Professor Chen Ang understand that the financial backer he served had extraordinary origins and great energy!

After carefully studying the metal in the picture, Professor Chen Ang was not sure.

He typed and asked: "Mr. Xu Ji, where did you find this piece of metal?"

The other party replied almost instantly: "Abroad... within the Khmer Kingdom..."

Professor Chen Ang thought seriously: "Khmer?"

“I’ve never heard of any special mineral veins in Khmer!”

However, the metal picture Xu Ji sent is indeed very strange.

So Professor Chen Ang typed: "Mr. Xu Ji, I am not studying physics and chemistry..."

"If possible, can I forward this picture to my colleagues?"

"See if they have any input?"

The other party responded quickly and agreed.

Professor Chen Ang did not forward the pictures to his colleagues in the Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry at Chu University.

Instead, he found the staff member of the relevant department with whom he was connected through the communication column, and then sent the picture there.

By the way, I explained the situation again.

…

"New metallic elements?"

In the imperial capital, a highly respected old professor from a large chemical institute looked at a photo of metals forwarded to him by the relevant department.

The old professor was stunned for a moment, then put on his reading glasses and looked carefully.

As we all know, the periodic table of elements is a scientific table made by Mendeleev who ranked the atoms according to their mass.

At present, it is generally accepted by the Blue Star scientific community that there should be more than 170 elements in the nature of Blue Star.

However, humans have only discovered 118 of these elements so far.

These elements have been sorted into seven periodic tables of elements and divided into sixteen different element families.

The way to sort them is very scientific.

For elements in the same period, from left to right, the number of electron shells outside the element's core is the same, and the number of electrons in the outer shell of the element decreases in sequence. The ability to lose electrons gradually weakens, the ability to gain electrons gradually increases, the metallicity gradually increases, and the non-metallicity gradually weakens

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For elements in the same group, from top to bottom, the number of electrons in the outermost shell is the same, the number of electron shells outside the nucleus gradually increases, the atomic radius increases, the atomic number increases, the metallicity of the element increases, and the non-metallicity decreases.

The old professor naturally knows these common senses well.

As an expert who has been immersed in chemical science for decades, a few years ago, as a representative of chemical scientists from the Central Plains, he participated in the review of four newly discovered elements: 113, 115, 117, and 118.

And named it Central Plains!

At this moment, the old professor looked at the small piece of metal in the picture carefully. The metal surface was gray-white.

The edges are rounded and the transparency is very poor.

There are no signs of oxidation on the appearance and no traces of corrosion.

He thought for a while and asked the person who sent the picture: "Are you sure this is a new metal element?"

Although the old professor had never seen anything like that piece of metal.
To be continued...