Avicenna's words caused an uproar. John de Lupisisa could no longer bear it and scolded: "Avicenna, alchemy is an extraordinary and hidden discipline. It is difficult for us to understand it quickly, but we must not laugh at attempts to People who understand it. Outlaw alchemy - this prejudice will plunge the world into darkness forever!"
"Understand it? John, let me ask you, do you alchemists admit that gold is the most perfect metal?"
"Yes, gold is the most perfect and noble among all substances in nature, and its properties are the most stable, just like..."
"Perfect as a god, right?" Avicenna interrupted, "You alchemists understand metals just as magicians understand gods. But have you ever seen that magician completely understand gods? All properties?"
"Your divine son of Tianfang Empire..."
"The Son of God is born a god, not a mortal. For a mortal, no matter how powerful the magical power he possesses, it cannot be equal to a god. All you alchemists can do is to make a poor imitation. No matter what you create No matter how similar gold is to natural gold and how many tests it has withstood, it is still inferior to natural gold - people can only compare the properties they can understand, and they can only imitate the properties they can understand. But people Our understanding is limited, and where people cannot understand, the difference between natural gold and alchemical gold still exists.”
"Avicenna, alchemy is not completely equivalent to magic." Lacy also refuted, "People cannot completely analyze the perfection of God, but they can completely analyze metals. Gold is just a metal, it is in our under control."
"Okay, the current vote is one to two, and I am at a disadvantage." Avicenna turned to the other two committee members, "What do you think of the debate we just had? Can alchemy really create perfect gold? Does it exist? necessary?"
The two committee members discussed in a low voice with serious expressions for a while. Finally, the tall and thin committee member stood up and said to Lacy: "Our opinions are currently consistent with Avicenna, unless you can show us how to analyze gold."
Hearing what the two committee members said, the alchemists' hearts suddenly went cold.
The so-called analysis is to separate the four elements of air, water, fire and earth or the two elements of sulfur and mercury from gold. Things like branches can be separated into the four elements simply by burning them - the fire is burned as a combustible substance, the gas is distilled out as an oily substance, the water is distilled out as a moist substance, and the earth remains as a residue. . Metals are a little more troublesome, but alchemists have their own ways of separating their properties.
However, the properties of gold are extremely stable. At present, the most they can do is to turn gold into gold water, and the properties of gold have not changed at all.
Only Avicenna clapped his hands in the crowd and said: "This is really a fair and wise judgment." Then, he looked at Lacy with a smile: "Lazi, didn't you say you wanted to analyze when you were at the school gate? What is the nature of gold? This is a major issue related to the abolition of the school. As a committee member, it’s unreasonable for you not to stand up at this time, right?"
Although Lacy gritted his teeth with hatred, this kind of thing was beyond his ability. He wanted to yell, to rush forward and punch Avicenna in the face, but that would only put the university in a worse position.
He lowered his head and begged softly: "With my ability, it's still impossible. Can you postpone the time for a few more months?"
Submissiveness was his only option at the moment, even if it would inevitably attract the ultimate ridicule from Avicenna.
However, his words were interrupted by a sudden explosion. Although the sound was not loud, it still frightened Avicenna and dropped the book in his hand to the ground. This elicited a burst of laughter from the crowd. Avicenna looked a little confused. He bent down to pick up the book, dusted it off, and then pretended that nothing happened and said: "Which guy ignored the committee's review and did the experiment on his own? Let's go, Come with me and have a look."
The explosion came from Ella's lab. A thick black smoke was drifting from the stove.
"Ahem, Amy, don't touch the things in the laboratory!"
Amy's face was blown black. She looked at Ella with innocent eyes and asked, "Why is this happening? I think His Majesty was so heated just now?"
Ella used her body to protect the liquid in a beaker as if she were protecting a treasure, and at the same time shouted: "Be sure to use a strong airtight container when heating, and be careful to control the heat! Many things will turn into gas at high temperatures, so the container If it is not strong, of course it will explode! Fortunately, what you put in is not a dangerous item, otherwise the 'King's Bathwater' I finally made will be destroyed by your explosion!"
Avicenna pushed open the door of the room with a dark face, and the black smoke rolling out from inside made his face even darker. He said angrily: "Are you a tutor or a student? What are you doing here?"
At this time, the group of alchemists also rushed over. When Ella saw so many people coming at once, she thought it was the explosion that had just caused her to fail the exam, and her confidence in speaking suddenly weakened by three points: "It's... evaporating gold."
"Haha, evaporate gold! This is the second time I have heard this alchemy joke today! Ask your mentor Lazi if he can do such a thing! Why don't you understand? Gold is the most powerful It is a stable metal that does not dissolve in any liquid and cannot be volatilized by any means! Any attempt to change the properties of gold is a useless effort and a waste of research funds..."
Avicenna stopped abruptly mid-sentence. Because Ella dropped a small piece of gold into the beaker of middle-aged liquid in front of him. A large number of bubbles soon appeared on the surface of the gold nugget. After a while, the glass of liquid turned yellow. Over time, the yellow deepens, approaching orange, and the gold disappears within it.
"Dissolved! Really dissolved!" Amy exclaimed in surprise, "When His Majesty just said that he was going to prepare bath water that can dissolve the king, I thought His Majesty was crazy!"
"Is the piece of stuff you just threw in really gold?" Avicenna asked pretending to be calm.
"Let me give it a try." The pudgy committee member stood up and was about to throw a Nomisma into the solution.
Ella stopped him: "Wait a minute! I'm going to volatilize the gold next! Nomisma is not pure gold, and it may affect subsequent observation steps!"
"This is the third time today that I have heard the joke about volatile gold. It is better not to say such boring jokes in the future." Avicenna stared at Ella's eyes, "If you don't let us test it, are you? Are you feeling guilty?"
Ella had no choice but to agree: "It's okay if you insist on testing it. Anyway, the impact won't be big. It just so happens that I may not have used enough gold, so the subsequent volatilization won't be very obvious. If you are willing to provide gold, that would be great." …”
"Stop using such words to scare people, I don't believe this liquid can dissolve real gold coins!"
Avicenna pulled the pudgy committee member away, took out his money bag and shook it provocatively at Ella, and then poured the dozens of gold coins inside into the solution in the beaker.
Like the gold nuggets thrown in before, these Nomis horses were soaked in the solution, and soon a lot of bubbles came out.
The alchemists who were watching let out a burst of exclamation.
Avicenna's face suddenly turned green: "Quickly...take out my gold coins quickly!"
