Over the vast grassland, shiny silver-white clouds float freely and leisurely, blocking the afternoon summer sun like an umbrella, creating a spectacle of clouds moving and shadowing the grassland. The lake reflects the sunlight and sparkles like gems. The wind blows slowly, blowing on people's clothes.
Like a breeze blowing by, Zhao Qing flew quietly for several miles and arrived at a small island in the center of a nearby lake. At the same time, he opened his palms and slowly poured pure and slightly shining energy into the crystal in his hands. Make it emit colorful and brilliant light.
If you carefully observe this crystal clear spherical crystal, you will find that the crystal ball with a diameter of several inches has been exquisitely carved into up to three layers of hollow balls. Each layer is stacked on top of each other and can rotate freely, achieving The opening and closing function.
Looking further, the outermost layer of crystal seems to be densely covered with filamentous micro-tubes; the middle layer of crystal is obviously indented to form twelve holes about two minutes in diameter, which together form a positive two-dimensional structure. The vertex structure of the decahedron;
The innermost layer of crystal seems to be filled with some kind of substance at the center. The refracted light shows less obvious changes, showing a bit of light brown from time to time. It makes people feel that these substances are in a state of extremely high pressure. Down.
Judging from the deuterium refining mentioned by Zhao Qing just now, but it does not seem to carry other capacities, the material filled in the center of the crystal is highly compressed solid deuterium that is almost in a metallic state.
And this crystal can actually withstand the high pressure of the atmosphere in such a state. It is obviously not extraordinary. In fact, it is the crystal spirit stone she found in the underground lake near Daxing City that day. Its strength is more than ten times higher than ordinary crystals.
"The structure of the outer X-ray mirror is normal and there should be no flaws; under low-temperature cooling, the pressure on solid deuterium is stable...The next step is to set up the test site and observe and record the effects after it is detonated."
Zhao Qing casually took out two slender black iron probes. The tip of one needle was slightly bright, and the tip of the other needle was dark and deep. He conducted a series of tests around the crystal ball and confirmed that the miniature hydrogen bomb was loaded with deuterium fuel. No damage whatsoever.
"If the fusion reaction is sufficient and the small-yield verification is completed, it proves that this TU-like hydrogen bomb has no major design problems. The power can be increased by increasing the charge, and it will gradually develop into one of my trump cards."
Taking back the two black iron probes, Zhao Qing walked around the island, took out two lead plates, fifty or sixty metal particles with different melting points, and placed a lead plate and metal particles on the island. On the edge, I thought secretly in my heart.
In her opinion, the significance of nuclear fusion weapons such as hydrogen bombs is completely different from the nuclear fission of atomic bombs.
In this world, although people have long been mining and smelting tungsten ore and titanium ore on a small scale, the more rare uranium ore has not been discovered and mined at all, and it is unknown where the ore sources exist.
Even if a large amount of uranium is successfully mined, most of the natural uranium is uranium-238, which is difficult to fission, and fissionable uranium-235 only accounts for about 0.72%. The latter must be purified to more than 97%.
For Zhao Qing, it is not impossible to purify uranium. The slight difference in density between the two can be used to use the step-by-step separation and concentration method, that is, the uranium-containing gas is repeatedly rotated and centrifuged. However, in general, one round of purification can only Add a little bit of purity;
Therefore, if you want to extract the critical mass of 52 kilograms under the spherical form of uranium-235, or the critical mass of 15 kilograms after adding a neutron reflection layer, you don't know how much time it will take. Referring to the progress of Iran's enrichment in previous generations, it is estimated that it will take years. count.
Considering the size of the finished atomic bomb and the time required to detonate it, and the fact that the shock wave that does not significantly exceed the speed of sound accounts for a large proportion of the energy released, it can be said that it has almost no actual combat value and at most functions as a landmine.
On the other hand, the raw materials of hydrogen bombs can be completely refined from water. One ton of water contains about 30 grams of deuterium, which is equivalent to the equivalent of more than 4,000 tons of tnt. The refining speed is extremely fast. The hydrogen is first collected by electrolysis, and then reduced to ultra-low temperature to apply pressure. The separation of protium and deuterium only takes a moment if you are skilled at it.
It should be noted that protium, which contains the largest amount of hydrogen, cannot replace deuterium as the raw material for nuclear fusion weapons, because the process of fusion of two protium atoms to form a deuterium atom is normally an energy-absorbing reaction and must be carried out in the core of the star. Occurs due to quantum tunneling;
Therefore, the vast majority of hydrogen in water cannot be used for nuclear fusion. It must use the two isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium, and cannot achieve higher utilization in raw material refining.
Considering that the content of tritium is much rarer than deuterium, it is quite troublesome to find and refine lithium-6, which can be used to prepare lithium deuteride. The fusion fuel she fills into the hydrogen bomb is only pure deuterium, and the reaction conditions are higher. , but under the same mass, it can release more than half the energy than the deuterium-tritium reaction.
Since there is no critical mass limit like uranium, once the problem of detonation is solved, looking at the small direction, the power can be sacrificed and the hydrogen bomb can be made as big as a grain of rice, which can be used as a concealed weapon;
Looking at the big picture, the upper limit of the power of the hydrogen bomb can at least reach the equivalent of billions of tons, and may even reach tens of billions or trillions of tons. It is definitely not a problem to kill the "lower six gases", and the "middle six gases" The environment should be able to be severely damaged even if it hits.
Considering that the equivalent of a trillion tons can theoretically only blow up a large crater of hundreds of miles, it seems to be less destructive than the original illusion of Ou Yezi, but even in the "Shang Six Qi" realm, in a fight with similar strength, throwing A few trillion-ton hydrogen bombs would probably be able to defeat the opponent.
Of course, as an indiscriminate range attack weapon, the use scenarios of hydrogen bombs are actually not widespread, and many factors need to be taken into consideration. If there is some unknown resistance in the "Six Qi" realm, or perhaps the rules of heaven and earth in the main world are different, the effect may be reduced a lot.
What's more, although the yield of a hydrogen bomb is said to have no upper limit, judging from previous generations, no design of more than 100 million tons has been developed. The highest is only the three-stage version of the Big Ivan. There is no more powerful four-layer nesting. It can be seen that there are also problems. Need to overcome.
In fact, as far as the current situation is concerned, the miniature hydrogen bomb designed by Zhao Qing himself can only last for a few hundred breaths at most because of the "Danxiao", so a channel must be left so that it can detonate close to the deuterium balloon in the center. It can only be a one-stage design, and its equivalent capacity has its limits.
For example, the miniature hydrogen bomb she is holding in her hand at the moment, which has not yet encapsulated "Danxiao" and has entered the pre-activation stage, only contains about 10 grams of solid deuterium gas. If it is fully fused, it will be equivalent to more than a thousand tons of TNT. That’s all.
In terms of large-scale destructive power, it is actually not much stronger than the high-intensity thunderstorms and large tornadoes that she can create in a certain amount of time;
However, at close range, the high temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees, the huge amount of light radiation and the neutron jet are far superior in energy level to the former, and they burst out instantly and at an extremely fast speed, making it difficult to resist.
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As we all know, a hydrogen bomb must be detonated by an atomic bomb, but few people know that in essence, an atomic bomb is a nuclear fusion material detonated by X-ray irradiation, and does not use fission high temperature and high pressure to cause nuclear fusion.
Because if high temperature and high pressure are used to fuse nuclear materials, when the high-temperature plasma of nuclear fission reaches the nuclear fusion material, the nuclear fusion material has been "blown" away, and at best it can only react by a few percent.
Any high-temperature object will radiate energy outward. To maintain a certain high temperature, sufficient energy must be generated inside the object or transferred to the object from outside the object. Otherwise, the object will gradually cool down.
In the case of high-temperature plasma, this radiation is mainly produced by the collision of electrons and ions, and is called Bremsstrahlung radiation, also known as X-rays.
After discovering that hydrogen bombs should be detonated with X-rays, Taylor and Ursu of the United States used an This is the TU configuration.
Referring to this principle, Zhao Qing used extremely fine micro-carving technology to carve out a bundle of hundreds of thousands of hollow capillary tubes in the outer layer of the crystal spirit stone to guide X-rays and focus them on the innermost solid state. Deuterium on.
As for the source of these X-rays, it is natural that "Danxiao" is passed through the rotatable and closed opening in the outer layer of the crystal ball, encapsulated and injected into the twelve specially set aside holes in the middle layer, and then detonated by simultaneous excitation, and the deuterium in the center is While compressing and squeezing into a small ball, it also releases a huge amount of X-rays.
Since the micro hydrogen bomb itself is extremely small, and its diameter is only equivalent to the distance that light travels in one billionth of a second, if Danxiao's explosion is slightly faster or slower, there will be a huge difference in the light pressure of the X-rays, causing the fuel to disperse. , the consequences of detonating and spreading.
Compared with this extremely short time difference, because the atomic bomb is activated by explosives, the accuracy only needs to be one millionth of a second, which is completely different in terms of difficulty.
In order to control the time to ensure that they are activated at the same time, and to ensure that the time difference between the explosion of the twelve miniature Danxiao is within one billionth of a second, she specially developed a technology to excite spiritual energy pulses, carving out a rod and piercing it into the crystal ball. The probe in the center is used to stimulate the spiritual energy in the ball to transmit the detonation signal.
If the projectile is not made of uniform and high-purity spiritual materials, the spiritual energy pulse will inevitably be hindered and cause abnormal refraction and reflection. Therefore, this kind of spiritual stone crystal can be regarded as one of the necessary raw materials for micro hydrogen bombs before the technology is updated. one.
It looks inconspicuous, but in fact, such a small crystal ball integrates countless profound skills. It can be called the perfect application of vitality science, material science and nuclear physics. Its complexity and sophistication are better than any other in the world. Unparalleled magical power.
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After laying out the materials for detecting the effects of nuclear explosions, Zhao Qing returned to the center of the island in the middle of the lake and took out a thin cold iron needle of dark green color. The tip of the needle trembled slightly, drawing out complex changes in a very small range, condensing a A purple light group the size of a soybean.
After using the tip of her sword to release a "Dan Xiao" with a diameter of about an inch half a month ago, and after initially conquering the method of compressing the Dan Xiao, she changed the long sword into an extremely thin long needle after many experiments. This significantly improves the accuracy of controlling sword moves.
As the filamentous true water and true fire reached a finer level, Danxiao was further compressed to one hundred thousandth of its original volume, but the power of a single particle inevitably dropped to one or two percent of its original size.
Therefore, according to Zhao Qing's calculations, the power of twelve ultra-micro Danxiao, when activated and exploded at the right position, can only detonate roughly 12 grams of deuterium fuel, leaving a margin of 2 grams.
I saw the cold iron long needle in her hand, after completing a Danxiao, the tip of the needle vibrated slightly, pushing the purple light group into the hole in the crystal ball in front, and as the cover rotated, it was embedded In the middle space, a new Danxiao condensed out.
Just like a revolver, twelve bullets were loaded in sequence. The entire crystal ball was shrouded in a blue-purple light, but the inner wall was not burned and melted, revealing Zhao Qing Superb aura manipulation skills.
After enhancing the restrained effect of the Danxiao Taiyin aura, the twelve purple light groups no longer actively float and cut, and are specially designed to weaken their ability to resist interference, making them easy to be excited and detonated by the modulated crystal energy field.
There are still three hundred breaths left before the maximum lifespan of these Danxiao. Zhao Qing finally checked the situation inside the crystal, then drained the air inside, rotated and sealed the channels between the layers, and controlled the flying sword like a flying sword. The crystal ball was slowly sent up to a low altitude of twenty feet.
Holding a heavy lead plate in hand, she retreated to the edge of the island more than thirty feet away. The sound of a countdown silently flashed in her heart. The moment after the "one" ended, strong spiritual energy fluctuations were immediately aroused around her, heading diagonally. Forty feet above, just a small projectile passed.
In the next moment, there were still 299 breaths left before the maximum lifespan. The twelve ultra-miniature Danxiao had exhausted their short life ahead of schedule and dissipated in a ball of extremely rapidly expanding plasma flames;
Twelve blazing white lights suddenly lit up in the small crystal ball, seemingly indistinguishable from each other. The supersonic shock wave had just formed and tore apart the thin crystal wall blocking the front, including X-rays. A huge amount of light radiation has already penetrated to the outer layer;
Then, these X-rays rush into the outer layer of hundreds of thousands of hollow capillary crystals. After intensive reflection and refraction, a considerable part of them return and focus on the deuterium fuel in the center of the inner layer of the crystal, causing it to overcome the temperature at the moment of violent contraction and heating. Coulomb repulsion between atomic nuclei;
In less than a microsecond, the high-temperature and high-pressure plasma released by Danxiao followed the X-rays and further compressed the deuterons in the center to an unimaginable degree of condensation. A small part of the nuclear fusion that had just been ignited spread rapidly. to all the deuterium atoms.
In an instant, with the huge jet of neutrons, the chain reaction became faster and more violent, and endless energy surged out like a tide, being liberated from the tiny deuterium nucleus.
At first it was just a tiny point of light, but within a few microseconds it spread into a huge high-temperature and high-pressure fireball, which was hundreds of times brighter than the sun. It took a few more milliseconds for the light ball to reach a maximum radius of twenty feet and touch the ground of the island. , turning the entire island in the middle of the lake into a sea of fire.
Then the photosphere dimmed and burst, releasing a strong supersonic shock wave. The high temperature formed heated the surrounding gas, causing the gas to rise rapidly to form a mushroom head-shaped cloud. At the same time, the low air pressure generated at the explosion site sucked up the air and dust below to form a column. Soot.
Eventually, the columnar smoke and top clouds will combine to form a giant mushroom cloud that can be seen clearly from hundreds of miles away.
The shock wave slowly attenuates into sound waves as the distance increases, and then attenuates through atmospheric absorption, reflection, refraction, scattering, dispersion, etc., and gradually degenerates into infrasound waves, which are enough to travel thousands of miles in the air before attenuating and disappearing.
Theoretically speaking, a nuclear bomb designed with a kiloton yield can instantly kill ordinary people at a distance of more than 200 feet. However, for Zhao Qing, as long as she is not inside the nuclear fireball, she will not be affected by the multiple defense barriers she has deployed. Any trauma.
Carrying out high-precision observation of the detonation effect of the hydrogen bomb at this location only from the edge of the nuclear fireball is definitely much better than staying far away, and more reliable data can be collected.
As for holding a lead plate in front of her, she was worried that gamma rays and high-energy neutron jets might have the effect of damaging the soul, just in case; a simple radiation injury, with strong recovery ability and rebirth The effect will never have any long-lasting effects.
However, despite careful calculations and adequate protection in advance, when the nuclear explosion actually occurred, Zhao Qing suddenly discovered a new change that was beyond her expectation.
Regarding the power of nuclear bombs: The meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs was as high as 100 trillion tons of tnt equivalent, and the crater left was only 180 kilometers in diameter.
I’ll update it later if I have something to do, I’ll update 6k tomorrow
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