After hearing Avicenna say that he wanted to take out the gold coins, Ella reluctantly glanced at the gold coins in the solution, and then walked away slowly.
"What are you going to do?"
"Go find the tweezers and pick out the gold coin."
Ella slowly rummaged through the cabinet, then slowly opened the drawers one by one and looked at them, then lay down on the ground and started to check the gap between the cabinet and the ground.
"Haven't you found the tweezers yet?"
"The laboratory is not mine, and I am not very familiar with where the tweezers are."
After Ella checked the cabinet, she began to search for the charcoal ash in the boiler. Anyway, the gold coins are not hers, so she is not in a hurry.
But Avicenna was anxious. Seeing more and more bubbles popping up, he rushed forward and tried to grab the gold coins with his hands. Lacy, who was on the sidelines, lost no time in reminding: "Be careful, this is a strong acid that can dissolve gold, and the properties of your hands are not as stable as gold."
Avicenna was about to put his hand into the liquid, but when he heard Lacy's words, he quickly pulled his hand back as if he was electrocuted. He looked at Ella dissatisfied and shouted: "Have you not found the tweezers yet?"
"Well, I've obviously seen it before, where is it..."
Ella took off her boots and put her hands inside to fumble around. Avicenna stamped his foot, pushed aside the crowd surrounding the door, took a pair of tweezers from the next room and rushed back. Seeing Avicenna get the tweezers, Ella let out a disappointed "tsk" and put her boots back on.
She really wanted the gold coins to dissolve more in the liquid.
When Avicenna washed and dried the dozens of gold coins, the patterns on the surface of the gold coins had been corroded to the point of disgrace.
John de Rupisisa took a gold coin from Avicenna's hand, looked at it carefully for a while, and exclaimed, "This is really a great skill. How did you do it?"
"According to the alchemical text my teacher left me, the second of the twelve keys: the precious bath water needed by the king must be obtained with the most wisdom and care by the two warriors, the eagle and the Dragon. It is useless for the eagle to build its nest alone on the top of the Alps, because the young eagles will freeze up high in the mountains. But when you introduce to the eagle the old dragon that has long lived among the rocks and crawled in and out of its caves, and When the two are placed in a hellish position, Hades, the king of Hades, will blow fiercely and send out a flying, fiery spirit from the middle age of the cold dragon. Its huge heat will burn the feathers of the eagle. Prepare. With a good steam bath, the snow on the mountains will definitely melt into water. The mineral bath prepared in this way will bring good luck and health to the king."
"A complex alchemical text." Lacy was thinking at the side. "'King' must refer to gold. 'King's bathwater' must be the liquid shown in front of us. It is made from two substances: eagle and dragon. . I guess 'dragon' refers to saltpeter. Because there are hints in the text that 'dragons' crawl out of caves and 'cold dragons' send out 'flying, fiery spirits'. Saltpeter naturally occurs in caves. , it tastes cold on the tongue. The 'flying, fiery spirit' released after heating refers to nitric acid. Jabir Yin Ben Hayan prepared it from saltpeter by retorting. I guess Right?"
Ella nodded repeatedly: "Yes! It refers to saltpeter! And the teacher who gave me the book is Jabir Yin Ben Hayan!"
Lazi's face showed a look of surprise: "Oh, Jabir's documents are very precious. He was the most famous alchemist in the classical period. If anyone is most likely to have made the philosopher's stone, it must be him. I found his fragments not long ago. There are only three pieces of paper in total, but they cost me the price of fifty cows. Do you also have his fragments? You just said that there are twelve keys...? Can you? Can’t you share it with me?”
Amy covered Ella's mouth as she was about to answer. She had already heard some clues from Lacy's words. They are now in a foreign country, and if Ella replies that Jabir gave her the book in person, that it is a thick volume, and that the book also records what Jabir has learned throughout his life, many things may happen.
"We only have twelve pieces of paper on hand, which are the twelve keys she just mentioned." Amy answered for Ella, "We didn't bring anything, and we only remember a few sentences in it, so we can't show it to you. ,sorry."
There was a look of disappointment on Lacy's face: "Oh, it's okay, there will be a chance next time, there will be a chance... But I don't understand, the dragon refers to saltpeter, so what does the eagle refer to?"
Ella pulled Amy's hand away and pointed to the middle finger of her right hand with her left hand. Lacy suddenly realized: "It's iron sand! It is located on the middle finger of the philosopher's hand, second only to the saltpeter on the thumb and the sulfur on the index finger. The ancient philosopher told us that the reason for this arrangement is that the power of iron sand is second only to Regarding nitrate and sulfur, is this the original reason?"
Ella replied triumphantly: "Yes, it is the sun on the hand of the philosopher. It will sublimate as long as it is slightly heated, just like the eagle with its powerful flying ability. After it sublimates, it will remain at the bottom of the flask A white substance like snow, so it is said that 'young eagles will freeze on high mountains'. The key is. When it is retorted with saltpeter, an acid much stronger than nitric acid will be produced, which is enough to freeze The gold dissolves. This is the 'King's Bathwater' discovered by my master Jabir Yin bin Hayan."
After a brief surprise, Lazi turned to Avicenna and said: "Did you hear that? This powerful water was made by Jabir Yin Ben Hayan, who you just denounced as a liar. It seems that in Before the Seven Hills Empire banned alchemy, those ancient alchemists had indeed mastered techniques far beyond our time."
"It's not over yet." Avicenna suddenly said to Ella, "Come, let's try to evaporate the gold!"
"Avicenna!" John de Rupisisa shouted, "The gold has been corroded, which shows that people have the ability to analyze gold. Even so, do you still want to mess around?"
"It's not me who said that gold should be evaporated, but this little girl!" Avicenna shouted. "If she can't do it, it only means that she is just a liar! How can we trust a liar? if?"
"You say she is a liar?" Amy couldn't help it. "The gold has already dissolved. Isn't it just a matter of heating it to evaporate the water?"
"Unfortunately, Amy, that won't work."
Ella poured the bottle of gold-dissolved solution into a sealed container, then heated it and showed it to Amy. As the solution evaporates, a crystal precipitates out. As the temperature continued to rise, the crystals disappeared and the golden gold reappeared at the bottom of the bottle.
"To volatilize the gold, a third key is required - which is the limit of what my current skills can achieve."
Hearing that Ella was really preparing to volatilize the gold, even the little old man John De Rupisisa frowned:
"Little girl, although I am amazed by the skills you have displayed, you still have to be careful with your assertions. Even if this method is mentioned in the fragments you found, you have to know that the evaporation of gold is often just a form of elegance. Hyperbole appears in ancient texts. More often than not, it was used to mock alchemists."
"No problem." Ella said, "Although I have failed countless times, I finally succeeded the most recent time."
