After finishing Mars Science Exchange Summit in the morning, Chen Mengchuan was a little tired and went back to the room to rest for a while, wash his face, and relax himself. These scientific summits contain a lot of content and take a long time. What everyone exchanges is very essential. It is not easy to digest these things.
After shaking off the water on his hand, Chen Mengchuan squinted his eyes, feeling a little sad at some point.
When he walked out of the room and went to the centralized canteen area, he received a voice message from the main control room. This voice message made him stunned, then he smiled and put it aside for now. He planned to eat first.
Martian base's canteens are all centralized and can be found in many areas. The science exchange summit has just been held and there are people everywhere eating, drinking and communicating.
Chen Mengchuan took a portion of food. The food was lunch-style and the portion was not large. Most people picked up their meals based on the recommended weight range. There were many types of food and it was not too monotonous. There were also a large number of drinks and fruit and vegetable salads that could be picked up at any time.
After taking the order for the meal, Chen Mengchuan found Toni and Chen Xiaoyun at the small round table where several people often ate. He walked over with the dinner plate and started chatting with them while eating.
After a while, Xu Shuwei came to the canteen area in a hurry and found the three of Chen Mengchuan.
"Huh... you are still in the mood to eat! Mengchuan!..." Xu Shuwei gasped.
"People are like iron rice. If you don't eat even one meal, you will feel hungry. So you come to eat. It's that simple, and it's not a big deal." Chen Mengchuan said with a smile.
"Okay, okay, you're awesome. Huh, I've eaten a little bit this morning. Now, when you say that, I feel hungry. No, I'm going to get a lunch first." After Xu Shuwei finished speaking, he walked towards the self-service food entrance.
"Okay, I'm a little interested in knowing what's going on with you." Toni looked at Chen Mengchuan.
When he was talking, Chen Xiaoyun also looked at Chen Mengchuan, with some curiosity in his calm eyes.
Chen Mengchuan smiled and did not answer his question. He just raised his head and raised his chin in the direction of Xu Shuwei, meaning that he would speak when Xu Shuwei came.
Toni pushed up his glasses and looked at Xu Shuwei.
Xu Shuwei quickly packed the food and came over. He took a large tray, which contained a slightly larger lunch box, a whole fried chicken, a large glass of soda and a bowl full of fruit and vegetable salad.
"Aren't you trying to lose weight? Can you eat so much? I won't kill you." Chen Mengchuan rolled his eyes.
"Haha, people are made of iron. If you don't eat for one meal, you will feel hungry. When you are hungry, you have to buy more food. You said it yourself. Besides, look at my body shape. If I don't eat so much, I will starve to death? Not to mention that there are a lot of these things? I can only eat three-thirds full." Xu Shuwei sat down in front of the three of them. Put the large dinner plate on the table.
Watching Xu Shuwei drink a large glass of soda first, Toni asked him, "Tell me, what happened."
"Haha, Toni, guess what." Xu Shuwei showed off when he saw that Chen Mengchuan didn't tell the two of them.
"I'm too lazy to guess, tell me, did Exploration Multi-Arm Crab discover something good?" Toni asked.
Xu Shuwei smiled so brightly that his fat body began to tremble a little.
"We found diamonds in a large crater with a diameter of 230 kilometers in the northern region of Mars! A lot of diamonds! No, no, it's a massive amount of diamonds! The guys at the Geological Research Department are going crazy now. They estimate that the diamond reserves in this crater are abnormal. Amazing. It contains rich diamond resources! These diamonds are all impact drills, which should be produced when meteorites hit the graphite deposits in the Martian crust. I don't know how long they have existed. The reserves are amazing. They are everywhere after a little digging, and the size is very... very exaggerated!"
"Now the exploration type Multi-Arm Crab has begun exploration, and many large diamond bodies have been discovered. Single diamonds weighing tens of kilograms or even hundreds of kilograms have been found."
"However, several experts say that these large diamonds contain crystalline Lonsdaleite, which is actually an allotrope of carbon with a hexagonal lattice. The average hardness of this type of diamond is more than 50% higher than that of ordinary diamonds. They are larger and more suitable for industrial and scientific applications. But if they are really sold, they will definitely make a fortune." Xu Shuwei chuckled.
Toni glanced at him but said nothing, with no fluctuation in his expression at all.
"Is it useful? I mean this diamond mine, do you mean to dig it out and sell it in jewelry stores on Earth?" Chen Mengchuan was speechless.
"Ahem, of course... no, there's no way to sell it." Xu Shuwei suddenly felt a little discouraged, and the excitement of discovering the diamond mine seemed to be deflated in an instant.
"Are we short of money? No, besides, if you throw so many diamonds on the earth, how slowly do you have to sell them? To say the least, even if you throw all these diamonds to the seven diamond giants, they probably won't accept them. They probably have more diamonds than they can sell. They don't even have industrial value. 60 years ago America's General Company has mastered the technology of obtaining artificial diamonds through high temperature and high pressure. The industrial value of natural diamonds has completely disappeared. The main uses of natural diamonds are currently limited to jewelry and ornamental products. "Chen Mengchuan said slowly.
"It would be worthwhile to be happy if a large metal mine is discovered." Toni also said calmly.
"You guys are such a letdown." Xu Shuwei pulled off a drumstick from the fried chicken and stuffed it into his mouth.
"It's not completely meaningless. At least we can confirm that there will be a large amount of carbon in this mining area, which can be collected and is a good material for making graphene. From this perspective, it is good news. At least our subsequent demand for a large amount of graphene has been solved." Chen Mengchuan said.
Nowadays, Tenzhi Technology's graphene technology has developed faster and faster. After the completion of single crystal graphene technology, the graphene team set up an additional project team to specialize in graphene nanotechnology. With the emphasis after the establishment of the project, there are now more and more people. A graphene scientific research base has also been established on Martian base, and it is planned to start large-scale research and development of graphene nanotechnology.
Chen Mengchuan is also looking forward to the large number of product directions hanging in the project team...
If graphene nanotechnology can be completed, then many of the following technologies will be promoted faster!
The laptop overheated, crashed twice, and lost more than a chapter of data.