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Chapter 11 Production of anesthetics

Obviously, this set of "spell system" is extremely cumbersome, and it is not as simple as the novel says-just sit with your eyes closed, absorb the spirit in the world into the body, and release it when you use it.

This set of "spell system", even if Richard described it according to the "Monroe Chapter", plus a lot of his own speculations, there are a lot of doubts in many of them.

For example, what is the "super-body state" to be achieved in the first life remodeling?What is the "highly activated state" to be achieved in the second life remodeling?What is the "high-energy state" to be achieved in the third life remodeling?

In this regard, Richard can only guess, explore and try.

According to some relevant explanations in the book, the "super-body state" of the first life remodeling is a mysterious state that allows the spirit to temporarily leave the body and feel the outside world with the spirit.It feels a bit like a dream, but it keeps a clear sense of self.

Richard's understanding of this is that the "super-body state" should be similar to meditation, that is, "Mantra" in Indian Sanskrit: In Sanskrit, "Mantra" can be divided into two parts, namely "Man" and "Tella"."Man" means "mind"."Tela" means "lead away".Therefore, "Mantra" means to draw away the human mind from its worldly thoughts, worries, desires, mental burdens, etc.

But the "super-body state" is not completely equivalent to the "Mantra" meditation. In comparison, it is deeper. On the basis of maintaining self-consciousness, it is more separated from the body and deeper in the spirit. It is similar to the ultimate state of meditation. --Zen.

Or, it is a kind of "nightmare" state, that is, "ghost press": when a person suddenly wakes up in his sleep, the brain regains consciousness, but the central movement is still in a state of deep sleep, which causes a phenomenon that the mind cannot control the body.You can think and remember, but you can't make any movements of the limbs, so that people with this experience are extremely panicked.

Or the "lucid dream" that many people pursue: consciousness is between half asleep and half awake, you can clearly know that you are dreaming, and you can control the generation of arbitrary dreams, so that you can create and destroy like God, and you cannot achieve it in reality. All kinds of fantasies.

Simply put, the "superbody state" is a very deep "Mantra" meditation, and it is not easy to achieve this.Even a true yoga master cannot guarantee full immersion in meditation at any time.The so-called "nightmares" and "lucid dreams" are even more difficult to come by. Even if the sleep is intentionally adjusted, the success rate is less than one-tenth.

This can't be accepted by Richard at all, and is in a scientific attitude. Only a 100% success rate can prove that one thing is only feasible.

And in order to make the extremely difficult "super-body state" to become 100%, Richard's way is to rely on drugs.

It is true that the use of drugs may have some effects on the body, but the use of drugs may be the most convenient and fastest way.Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to maintain a state of consciousness and let the body sleep, but with special drugs, such as alkaloids with anesthesia, it can be done.

Many plants contain this alkaloid component, such as solanaceae, leguminous, ranunculaceae, poppy family, etc. in dicotyledonous plants.It is only necessary to add plant raw materials to the instrument, and after a series of chemical reactions to remove impurities, high-purity anesthetic alkaloids can be obtained.

Richard thought, and operated.

Complex instruments continue to function, distillation, condensation, filtration, precipitation, dissolution, crystallization...

"Poo poo", a lot of white vapor came out, "Papa Papa", the lid of the jar kept pulsating, "Tick Tick", a drop of yellow liquid dripped from the horn tube, "Gutter", a large amount came out of the beaker bubble……

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After being busy for half a day, the entire experimental process reached the final stage. As the temperature of the liquid in a beaker gradually cooled down, a block of crystals precipitated out, showing a muddy yellow color, and the interior seemed to be filled with some dust.

Richard just glanced at it, and he couldn't help shaking his head, knowing that this first attempt failed, the reason is simple-there are impurities.

There is nothing wrong with my own experiment process. The removal of various impurities has been considered, but the whole experiment is more than 20 links, subject to the current world production equipment, and each link will produce a small and large error.

One error and two errors are acceptable, but ten errors and twenty errors are fatal. The cumulative change in quantity leads to qualitative change, completely contaminating the crystal of the final product that should be pure and thus unusable.

Failed!

Richard shook his head again without any annoyed expression.Since coming to this world for 15 years, I have understood what kind of world it is, even if I am angry, it is useless. No matter how strict the craftsmen are, the instruments produced will always have errors.

To solve this problem, what is needed is to drive out impurities and improve purity.

If you want to expel impurities and improve purity, you need a suitable solvent, or extractant, preferably an organic extractant.

However, the production of organic extractants is not easy.

Many organic extractants require high-temperature and high-pressure conditions. Is it possible to find a way to manufacture reactors and fractionating towers?

The only easy organic extractant may be ether.

Well, wait, ether!

Li Cha's eyes narrowed suddenly, thinking of something.

Ether!

Yes, ether!

Ether can be used as a drug extractant, but then again, if there is really ether, what extraction is needed!Ether itself is a better anesthetic than alkaloids!

Yes, ether is an anesthetic!

Ether is a kind of liquid anesthesia, and it is considered to be the one most people know. Even though it has not been seen in reality, in various sizes of movies, you will often see such a bridge: bad people use one The liquid-soaked handkerchief slammed the victim's mouth and nose. The victim inhaled nervously, sucking the volatile liquid into the body, and then the body passed out.

In the bridge section, the liquid in the handkerchief is diethyl ether, which is a colorless and transparent liquid that is extremely volatile and has an extremely fast anesthesia efficiency.

But to prepare this ether, it is difficult to use industrial methods.Because it is necessary to use alumina as a catalyst.Alumina, or metallic aluminum, is currently in a world similar to the Middle Ages, and its scarcity can be ten times higher than that of gold and gemstones.

But laboratory preparation is much simpler.

Only two kinds of raw materials are needed to make ether in the laboratory, namely sulfuric acid and ethanol.There is sulfuric acid. As for ethanol—what is ethanol, and what is ethanol—isn’t ethanol the scientific name of alcohol? But there are enough of these things.Making ether with alcohol seems to be the knowledge in high school chemistry textbooks. I seem to have really complicated things."

Richard said to himself, slowly stood up, his eyes fell on the instrument on the side table.Stepping closer, quickly disassemble the instrument, and then use the large test tube, catheter, cork, flask, iron stand, iron ring, and separatory funnel to assemble another set of instruments.

After the assembly was completed, the airtightness was simply checked, and Richard started to charge.Pour absolute ethanol into the flask, then slowly add concentrated sulfuric acid, stopper with a wooden stopper...heat...cool...

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