Chapter 103 Forbidden Magic Thermometer

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Looking at the spring steel in his hand that couldn't bounce no matter what, Ictor fell into deep thought.

Although he knew that he would definitely encounter failure, this time Iket was not as confident as he was when he was frying steel.

To be honest, the steel frying process has limited variables, and the heat treatment of steel cannot be tested by a few experiments.

Although the heat treatment of metal materials requires a certain temperature range, what makes Ickert helpless is that he cannot even determine this temperature range.

Including the furnace temperature, he couldn't even determine the temperature of the furnace, and he didn't know whether it was higher or lower.

In desperation, Ictor could only hope that Hammerhead could find a way. After all, without enough instruments, he could only use his experience to solve the problem.

"Hammerhead, what do you think?"

"Lord, based on my more than forty years of blacksmithing experience, your furnace temperature may be too high."

The magic-forbidden thermometer in front of me is almost identical in design to an enlarged mercury thermometer, and is essentially a liquid thermometer.

Those elites who invented some machine may sound like elites, but in fact they only became elites because they improved productivity.

As a high temperature thermometer, its working substance is

Liquid lead!

Ickert already had a plan on how to make a thermometer.

"high?"

The raw material is metamorphic stone.

Elites always come from the working people and are relevant to the times. Anyway, Ikert would not agree with elites driving the development of world history.

Anyway, as long as it works.

But he has a legacy from ancient empires.

After all, the dimensional stone itself is relatively stable, but once dispersed, its instability will appear again.

Hammerhead said, although blacksmiths all like a hot furnace, but if they can't process it, then forget it.

There are indeed no lead mines in the territory, and Iket has not developed any minerals yet.

Ictor scraped some impurities from the dimensional stone ore, used magic detection, and found that this forbidden magic material also had the same properties in this world.

I'm not saying that your furnace is not good, Lord, I mean that it is so good! Even the forges we usually build cannot compare to it."

By adding a magic-forbidden material to a liquid that can withstand high temperatures, and then using magic power to detect it, you can get real-time data without any external instructions.

Ha people.

Among these impurities, there may be some kind of forbidden magic substance.

However, liquid thermometers cannot be used with liquids that boil after being heated once or twice. If Ickert remembers correctly, the boiling point of lead in the textbook should be 1749°C.

"I see."

Using forbidden magic material to make a thermometer, Iket felt that his idea was a bit strange.

The only question that needs to be solved is where the lead comes from.

Education, education, without education, how can there be development?

Ickert believes that the only solution is to regulate the temperature.

After Hammerhead finished his work, the thermometer parts he needed were also completed.

What maintains its stability is the materials that exist together with its crystals. They are often called impurities.

Although only mages can use it, it can be used anyway.

"Uh, the temperature is... very red and hot."

Ictor tried to use his knowledge to guess the formation process of the dimension stone:

As the magical energy penetrates deep into the ground, it is constantly squeezed by the forbidden magic substances existing underground. Under the action of high magical pressure and geological movement, it finally forms a special crystal structure that can maintain stable magical properties.

Iket almost forgot again that he was the only one present who had a specific concept of temperature!

It's that simple.

It was a product of when the empire was still in the northern continent. According to the classification of historical dynasties, it should be called the Northern Sekarion Empire.

Although it sounds a bit outrageous, if stone men really exist in the world, Ictor plans to do just that.

There must be something, or some structure, that allows it to remain stable as a warpstone.

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Ictor only expected that the furnace temperature was not enough, but he never thought that he would make the same mistake as when frying steel.

Ictor has no way of knowing what kind of magic-forbidden material is native to the world over there, nor can he know whether it is another material that exhibits magic-forbidden properties in this world.

It's a pity that he really can't conjure a stone man.

Hammerhead suggested after feeling the furnace temperature carefully for a while.

"Yes, Lord, the temperature of the furnace that you used magic to maintain is really shocking! We have never used such a hot iron furnace in our daily forging!

Leaving behind the hammer head and the parts needed to build a thermometer, Ictor walked straight out of the blacksmith's hut.

The thermometer he wants to build is actually a rather tricky thing.

Ictor had thought before that something like the wind of magic could not only have an invisible energy form, but also be deposited into a nearly solid dimension stone. There must be some medium at work in it.

After all, the development of human industry to this day has never been driven by a single person, but requires the wheels called "working people" to drive the industrial carriage forward.

But what can he say? I am engaged in industry, and my heart is on fire!

"Then according to your blacksmith's method, what should be the heating temperature before quenching?"

The issue of spring steel needed to be put aside for the time being, but Ickert had no intention of solving it in one fell swoop from the beginning.

The principle of the magic-forbidden thermometer is very simple. This device mainly utilizes the high penetration of magic power.

That's enough.

The only way left is to get a thermometer and solve the variable of temperature.

For example, a time counter can also be used to count pulses and heartbeats, but the temperature

You can't throw a stone man into a furnace and let him feel the specific temperature.

Of course, unlike those high-end glass products and precision machinery in the previous life, it was impossible for the territory's current industrial base to produce those things, so there was no need for him to add another industrial project halfway.

In this way, Ictor left the wine cellar with enough magic-forbidden materials and returned to the blacksmith's cabin.

That's just too much force.

Of course, the impurities in his hands are actually a lot of mixed materials.

There should be the magic-forbidden materials he needs in the corners of the Yuanshi ore.

Now it’s very embarrassing. The blacksmith said that the furnace temperature is too high, but he can’t determine the specific furnace temperature required. So how can the production of spring steel proceed?

Building a good stove also takes a lot of time.

The melting point of lead is 327°C, which is also within the range of medium temperature tempering.

Dimensional stone ore is its most authentic stable state.

Ictor felt that his idea was indeed quite annoying.

The life of the people in the North Sea was much better than that in the South Sea, but the nobles at that time were just like the nobles of ancient Rome and liked to use lead water pipes and lead cups.

As for the opportunity to discover that these things were made of lead, it was because the citizens recommended to him that using such containers to hold wine would make the wine sweeter.

Iket was almost frightened to death.

Every household has more or less such relics of ancient nobility.

Naturally, Ictor collected all these sinful things and simply used them as working substances for the thermometer.
Chapter completed!