The Ross tribe has never been able to get any good writing materials, so some of the tribe's "intellectuals" had to carve words on wooden boards to record some things.
For the most ordinary families, they do not need to record important things in the form of engraving.
Rurik was holding a small carving knife from Tiejian in his hand. It was made of wrought iron, showing the quenching and hardening process. Facing a larger wooden board with a rough surface, he couldn't help but wonder whether even such a board could depict his knowledge well?
"What are you going to do? If you're going to carve, the job can be given to me." Klavasen suggested kindly.
"Help me carve? I'm going to make some marks first, and then you can help me gouge deeper, and finally apply a little ink."
"Are you determined to do it tonight? Maybe you can wait until tomorrow to continue."
Klavason had great doubts about the child's energy. He was also in a bad situation, and a yawn showed his fatigue.
Rurik shook his head: "Like a piece of red-hot iron, we must strike while the iron is hot. I have nothing else to do except sleep, so I will work hard tonight. I will do my best to bring the Odin I know Those creations are marked for you.”
Rurik's decision was of course welcomed by the two blacksmiths, and Klavason made no further complaints.
"Just keep doing it, we will accompany you, and let us know if you are hungry. I just hope you will be careful and don't get cut on your hand by the carving knife."
"Don't worry, make sure the oil lamp is bright and the stove is burning."
Let's talk, Rurik sat cross-legged, with the big wooden board placed on his legs, and began to use gentle force with the tip of the knife to draw extremely long marks on the wooden board.
At first, Klavason was unimpressed, but soon he realized that Rurik was making a grid.
Rurik's intention was actually very simple, which was to use his memory to reproduce the periodic table of elements as closely as possible in the ninth century AD.
In any case, the "Periodic Table of Elements" is indeed too advanced knowledge. As the Ross tribe has not yet escaped from ignorance, can they have any in-depth understanding?
How can it be!
Even students a thousand years later began to come into contact with the "Periodic Table of Elements" around the age of fourteen. If they wanted to have a preliminary understanding of its mysteries, the students were almost eighteen years old.
If the students in a thousand years are still like this, the illiterate people in this time and space cannot instill too much into them, otherwise it will be counterproductive.
Rurik drew a large number of grids, which have eighteen grids from left to right.
In the uppermost corner of the grid, he used the tip of a knife to draw the word "H", and then carefully used runes below to spell out the word "atom". The expression of the first grid is really concise and concise. The element marked as "H" is the smallest talent. He then marked the number 1 in rune on the right side of the "H", indicating that it was composed of only one "atom".
Clear marks were made on the oak board, and when he completed a grid, Klavassin and Kawei were still completely puzzled. This puzzlement also appeals to the grid at the back.
For example, the second grid carved by Rurik is actually on the far right side of the board!
Rurik labeled it "He". There is no other meaning. The element is "helium". It's just that due to the level of knowledge of ancient people, no one understood that there were many trace amounts of inert gases in the air, and they were not able to separate them.
In fact, in the true context of scientific development, the discovery of helium is quite legendary, and the era when it was discovered was also the industrial age.
Rurik did not have any annotation on element No. 2, and only gave it a number of "No. 2" in rune script.
From No. 3 to No. 5, Rurik used Roman letters to mark the names of these elements. For these scientific records, runes are not as disseminable and popular as Roman letters.
In fact, Rurik wanted to explain the boron in "No. 5". After all, the boron element has very good uses in industrial manufacturing. After much deliberation, he decided to forget it. He estimated that it would be impossible for Clavarson to easily find boron ore in the mountains. Rurik knew that he was better at mechanical things, and that other aspects of knowledge would only be at the basic level of ordinary college students a thousand years later.
Of course, more than a thousand years later, the knowledge of any junior high school student will completely surpass the so-called wise men of Western Europe in the ninth century.
Things were different when it came to Element No. 6.
The two blacksmiths saw this and finally looked forward to a new annotation on Rurikki No. 6.
The annotation is very simple. The so-called "carbon" is composed of a piece of charcoal. The annotations are all written in rune script.
Regarding the explanation of the carbon element, Rurik used analogies and gestures with mines and charcoal, barely making the two blacksmiths understand that there is such a "basic element."
For element No. 7, Rurik drew an H as usual, but he put some thought into the label and wrote "breathable plain air".
"What kind of anger is this? It doesn't have any smell?" Klavasen's sudden words really startled Rurik, and the blade almost hit his hand.
"Yes, there is just no smell. It is in every breath you and I take. It is not very important to us, but it is more important to those trees. Blacksmith, please stop talking loudly, I'm afraid I will be hurt. "
Klavason nodded as if he understood: "You continue, I'll be quiet."
Element No. 8 is annotated as "the breath of life."
The next two have no annotations.
When it came to element No. 11, sodium, Rurik hesitated for a while and simply labeled it "half salt."
At this point, it was impossible for Klavasen to hold his mouth shut. In order not to frighten the child, he suppressed his trembling with surprise and suddenly asked: "Could it be that the salt we eat is actually a mixture of two elements?"
"Huh? Do you understand? I thought I would have to waste more words with you." Rurik sat upright, admiring this old guy's logical analysis ability.
"My son and I both understand. Since you just explained so well the elements that make up all ores, how to get rid of the useless and leave the useful, or how different elements are mixed into the most useful tools. From the beginning, I am very willing to believe in the world's Everything is made up of a mixture of many elements. Could it be that salt...it..." Clavarson paused for breath, "Where is the other half?"
Rurik tapped the grid with the tip of his knife and silently recited the number until he hit the 17th chlorine.
"That's it, No. 17, it's the other half of salt. They are like a couple, holding each other's hands and becoming the smallest salt."
"Ah! So that's what it is." Klavasen looked at his son Kawei, "Do you believe it?"
"Is there anything more logical than this?" Kawei said seriously, "Now I believe everything Rurik says, and this is worth believing. I don't dare to be stupid enough to doubt Odin's wisdom."
At this moment, Rurik really didn't know what to say about them. Maybe they were very good students, but they just lacked the spirit of independent thinking.
When it comes to No. 13 aluminum, ancient people did not have the ability to make aluminum. Thinking of a description that a blacksmith might understand, he marked it with "the green color given to emeralds." He made such a mark and couldn't help but secretly admire his own wit. Various silicate gemstones, their beautiful colors come from small amounts of rare metals.
The two blacksmiths could not understand the strange utensils of aluminum pots, but at least they understood colorful gems.
When it comes to silicon No. 14, this is the easiest to annotate, and it is also the easiest for the blacksmith to understand. Rurik simply made two annotations, one is "slag" and the other is "transparent sand". Since silicon is the main component of slag, it is easy for blacksmiths to understand it.
For this reason, Rurik had to say one more thing: "This substance is very important. Odin created the entire earth based on it, so if you hold a handful of soil, it will be the most abundant."
In response, the two blacksmiths' heads were like the hands of a lucky cat, nodding their heads in affirmation.
Phosphorus No. 15 needs annotation. It can't be explained that it is a will-o'-the-wisp, so it has a scary meaning. Rurik thought for a while and simply marked "it's part of a tooth." Since they can already understand that all things are a mixture of various elements, the same is true for teeth, so there is no need to elaborate further.
The sulfur number 16 is the simplest to label, just because there is a word describing sulfur in Norse.
"Ah, is it the kind of yellow-white stone that emits odor?" Kawei couldn't hold back his excitement this time.
Rurik did not hesitate: "That's it. When it mixes with the breath of life, it turns into a bad stench. And you, Kawei, why your fart smells bad because you've eaten so much? It's also because of it."
The vulgar words suddenly made the two blacksmiths laugh, and when they calmed down, they were left with nothing but surprise. Kawei really wants to ask: "I've never been stupid enough to go back and chew on that yellow stinking stone. Why does my fart stink? Could it be that I was sleepwalking and chewed it?"
"Of course not." Rurik might as well explain more, "It mixes into the earth, the onions absorb part of it, and you eat the onions in your stomach. Don't worry, it does no harm, and even has some benefits."
"There are benefits to the stench?" Kawei looked puzzled.
"I'm thinking now that I should ask the priest to add a little sulfur powder when making soap. In this way, the soap will turn yellow-white and have some smell. But in this way, the smallest lice and fleas will also be killed. Better than the soap you have now.”
Since soap was mentioned, Kawe simply talked about it excitedly: "Rurik, according to Odin's wisdom, soap is also a mixture of many elements, right?"
"Of course, don't ask any more questions first."
As Rurik marked the "other half of salt" for chlorine and left the mark for argon gas blank, the carving knife then completed the mark for potassium, writing directly "the key to soap".
"Kawei, do you want to know more about soap? Now let me tell you. Look at this element No. 19, it is actually the ashes after the charcoal burns out. Those ashes are actually the key to making soap, and they can also make everyone The trees are growing very lush. Do you understand?"
Card Nod nodded vigorously, "I probably understand."
"I hope you can understand. Now look at No. 20." Rurik quickly drew out the traces. In addition to the Roman letters of Ca, the most critical mark surprised the two blacksmiths.
Kawei asked with trembling teeth: "You...you mean that those limes are actually it? And our bones are also it?"
"Yes, this is the truth. It is integrated into the earth. As long as we eat wheat and meat, especially milk, it enters our bodies and forms our bones. If we eat enough, the bones will be particularly hard. Those poor people who fell and broke their arms, I think you can already understand why."
"I understand. Maybe in order to... make my bones stronger, I should go to the mountains to find lime and take a bite of it."
"You are so stupid!" Klavason slapped his son on the head in excitement, "Rurik said that you are not allowed to chew on smelly stones, and you shouldn't chew on those white stones either. Count the right ones. Right, Rurik?"
Rurik could only explain with a smile; "Yes, you can't chew it."
Rurik is someone who can recite many digits of the periodic table of elements backwards. This kind of thing is not too difficult as long as you practice more. Rurik vaguely remembered a lot, but gradually his mind must have become a little difficult to use.
He continued writing down the numbers.
Due to the fact that people in this time and space cannot understand many metal elements, and it is difficult to prepare them, Rurik's names in Roman letters are left blank.
Up to the 26th iron, it was clearly marked, and the marking was even simpler. It was just one word "svard", which was spelled out with five runes. Any blacksmith would understand that it was the element that made up the iron sword.
He also wanted to say something special: "You will think that most things in the world are made up of a mixture of many elements. Your ordinary iron sword is not like this, it is pure. But pure things are often soft."
As he spoke, Rurik marked the color of cobalt as "sapphire", while nickel was blank.
For the very crucial copper number 29, Rurik directly wrote its name in Norse. After all, copper coins are used more frequently than silver coins in daily life. The so-called copper coin is a Roman copper coin, which is basically cast from a piece of pure copper.
"You all know that pure copper is very soft, but adding tin and lead can make it very hard. Now you should understand that tin and lead are also elements."
Klavason nodded vigorously: "We can understand this. Tin is very soft, but lead is particularly heavy. They have a metallic luster. Maybe they are indeed similar existences."
"Your guess is very correct." Rurik motioned for the two of them to bring their heads together.
The two of them saw Rurik directly marking the word "Silver Coin" in the grid directly below the copper. The word "gold coin" is also marked on the grid directly below the "silver coin".
Rurik completed the annotation, also based on the grid number.
Since the periodic table of elements is compiled based on the number of protons and the number of electrons outside the nucleus as one of the important references, the entire table is compiled. It is not difficult to assign correct numbers to gold and silver.
Being marked like this, the whole room was so quiet that only the crackling of the charcoal fire in the stove...
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Chapter 103 Rurik’s Table of Elements (1)
