Ironvine Territory (78)

But just as Victor was about to give up on the idea, Number One gave Victor a reminder: "Victor, didn't you have a saying from your past life?"

Everything in the world is interconnected and mutually restraining!

Since this world has nurtured this plant, there must be other equally wondrous plants that can complement it. I think you can try using the resources of this world to solve this problem!

"Number One, I think you misused it. The original meaning of this sentence is that every problem or crisis contains a corresponding solution, and it cannot be understood literally."

Thank you, though. You've given me an idea, and I'll try to find a way to do it.

Victor thought of nitroglycerin from his past life, a terrible substance that Nobel had only managed to subdue by adding diatomaceous earth as a stabilizer.

In that case, Victor turned his attention to other plants, trying to find a special substance that could stabilize the gunpowder.

However, having an idea is like searching for a needle in a haystack. Victor had started arranging for people to do this a long time ago, but without a direction, Victor could only assign a task to the Arms Factory and then he stopped paying attention to it.

However, after Veronica appeared and came to the Two Rivers Territory to take on the role of the territory's research director, she began to take an interest in these things and also had high expectations for the powerful weapons that Victor had mentioned.

Veronica then assigned this task to a separate team to conduct exhaustive testing. After more than a year, they finally found a stabilizer.

The origin of this stabilizer is also quite mysterious. In order to find rubber, Victor not only instructed the ocean fleet to explore the southern part of the continent, but also tried to find some plants containing natural gum that exist in the Northlands Steppe, such as the Rubber Grass in his previous life.

Indeed, a discovery was made; a target plant was found. However, this plant contains few Natural Rubber impurities, and its parameters in all aspects are inferior to those of the Guer Gum from the previous life, making it unusable.

Moreover, current technology makes it difficult to extract pure rubber from this plant, so the project has essentially been abandoned.

However, when conducting experiments with gunpowder stabilizers, researchers added this gelatinous secretion and achieved good results.

This greatly increased the insensitivity of the gunpowder, making it possible to transport large quantities safely. Veronica then named this new type of gunpowder "Blazefire Gel".

However, this early Blazefire Gel did not satisfy Veronica, because the power of this improved gunpowder was much lower, less than half that of the original.

Under Veronica's arrangement, the experimental group quickly changed direction and tried adding other substances to increase the power of the gunpowder.

This time, Veronica had a clear idea. They had just found a magical plant, a moss growing on a rocky mountain. This rocky mountain was a new discovery by the prospecting team in the Two Rivers Territory, a large area of exposed bauxite.

This type of moss can extract aluminum from bauxite and turn it into pure aluminum powder, but the yield is too low. It is estimated that even if all the moss in this rocky mountain that stretches for more than ten square kilometers were collected, it would only yield a few thousand kilograms of aluminum, which does not have much practical value.

However, Veronica, combining the knowledge Victor taught her, discovered the wonderful use of this aluminum powder. She mixed this pure aluminum powder with ferric oxide powder from iron ore, added it to the Blazefire Gel, and created the current version of Blazefire Gel.

Although this kind of Blazefire Gel doesn't have a very high explosive power, and can't reach the level of the most advanced black powder, its burning ability is extremely strong, and it can generate terrifying high temperatures.

Normally, this kind of Blazefire Gel is stored in earthenware jars filled with paraffin wax and Sunflower Oil, kept away from air and moisture.

When needed, simply take it out, add a small amount of special red phosphorus, and it will start to burn violently and then explode due to friction with the air. The oily gel-like substance ejected after the explosion will become a terrifying burning substance that cannot be extinguished even by water.

This is the principle and function of the Blazefire Gel. Victor also admires Veronica for actually creating one of the most inhuman weapons in the war of his previous life Thermite Incendiary Bomb.