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Chapter 105: Reiner's Measurement

Early the next morning, in the laboratory on the north side of the teaching tower, Reiner and Sharon had already begun preparations for the experiment.

Reiner puts a few standard magic stones into the magic circle that would measure the relative element mass, and the lines that construct the magic emitted a dim light. This magic circle made by the alchemy workshop of the Rainbow Tower could easily deal with several common element measurements.

In the past, mages first determined the mass of elements by relying on alchemical reaction and analysis. By reacting elements of a certain mass with other elements, the mass of the compound was compared and analyzed to obtain the relative mass of the element. This method required a lot of experiments and accurate measurement and calculation.

Later, this method gradually evolved. In the end, academia had now determined the relative element mass of most known elements and compounds based on one-twelfth of the element mass of Carbone.

But this method also had an obvious problem, that was, it was impossible to distinguish elemental elements from compounds.

For example, water was considered to be a basic element before the appearance of Reiner's paper on the electrolysis of water. Its element mass was 18.02361. According to His Excellency Steinen's theory of element mass ordering, it was located after the Carbone element, and before the Magnis element.

However, Cornwall Penzance's electrolysis method had discovered two new elements, among which the element mass of the Thordian element was 22.89867, which was smaller than the Magnis element, so it jumped into the middle.

Then Reiner discovered that water was composed of two elements, and this sequence naturally changed again.

After the water was electrolyzed, mages quickly developed measurement magic circles based on Hydra and Occles, and the relative element mass order had some slight changes again.

His Excellency Steinen naturally also noticed that his theory had limitations. Not all known elements could be found in his list, but he couldn't find a better way to improve it.

At this moment, Reiner was facing three magic circles that used different benchmarks to measure relative element mass. Through the combination of these magic circles, a relatively accurate element mass could be obtained.

"Sharon, give me a little Borren element. Use the bottle in the lab."

Reiner ordered. The method of measuring the relative element mass was very simple, that was, he just needed to put the element he wanted to measure into the magic circle, and then he could get some values through extremely small reaction analysis.

This was very simple, but since it required the magic power of a first-ring mage or three standard magic stones to activate the magic circle, apprentices generally could not experiment on it.

Sharon took a bottle of Borren element. This element was extremely difficult to obtain. Most of the Borren elements obtained by alchemy reaction contained impurities. Therefore, the pure Borren element needed to be stored in a magic vessel, and it was very expensive. So it could be said that Reiner was very generous when he let Sharon experiment on it at will.

He took a little Borren element and placed it in the measurement magic circle. A shimmering light flickered, and there was a surge of magical power from the circle. In the extremely small world, the Borren element was interacting and reacting with other substances in the magic circle. Its subtle mass change did not escape the monitoring of the intricate magic circle. Soon, a series of numbers were output from the measurement magic circle, and Reiner hurriedly recorded it.

"10.88927, compared with your number, which is 10.88931, the difference only occurs after the third decimal place. It is basically reasonable, but..."

Reiner glanced at the open book next to him. The recognized relative element mass of Borren Element was 10.91046, which was far from Reiner's result.

They repeated the experiment two more times, and then used the other two measurement magic circles to measure, and the results obtained were closer to the initial data rather than the official value.

Sharon glanced at Reiner, hoping to find an answer.

"Let's try again."

Reiner said, but Sharon was even more confused.

"The results of repeated experiments should only linger around this number. Did we make any mistakes during the experiment?"

"There was no problem with the measurement method and process, and the mass of other elements you tested using these measurement magic circles did not have much error. Therefore, this possibility can be ruled out. Then it can only be the problem of the element itself."

Reiner said thoughtfully. He took out two small bottles with labels from his storage bag, which contained silver-gray powder.

"This is also the Borren element. I asked Mr. Osborne to buy it for me yesterday. Sharon, what do you think is the difference between these two Borren elements?"

Handing the bottle to Sharon, Reiner asked.

"Uh......"

Sharon carefully observed the Borren element in it. The two bottles were filled with similar silver-gray powder. If she had to identify a difference, then one of them was slightly darker in color, and the other was a little bit lumpier.

"Sorry, Mr. Reiner, I don't see a specific difference."

Hearing Sharon's answer, Reiner smiled, placed it next to the bottle in the laboratory, and then answered.

"It's the place of production."

He turned the bottle and showed Sharon the label.

The Borren element that the school laboratory had was from the Sorenfies Mine in the northern Midland Federation, and the other two bottles, one from Bumi in Antojar demiplane, and one from the Ferun Mine in Gledia demiplanes. The two demiplanes were located in different star realms, which were far apart, and they were also quite far away from the main plane.

When Reiner asked for help from Mr. Osborne yesterday, the other party was very surprised and did not understand Reiner's intentions, but Mr. Osborne did not ask any questions. He simply directly asked someone to send the things Reiner wanted overnight. It could be seen that he was a very efficient person.

"Would the Borren elements from different origins be different?"

Sharon asked with her head tilted. In her opinion, the element was the most basic substance, and it was not a fruit or animal. It would not be different because of different regions.

"I'm just experimenting on a conjecture."

Reiner shook his head. He hadn't conducted related experiments yet, so he couldn't confirm his thoughts.

"You said yesterday that maybe the elements themselves are different. Even the same element will have different types, right?"

"But this is just a complete hypothesis. There is no experimental phenomenon that can prove it."

Sharon didn't quite believe what she had said, and that conjecture was nothing more than a joke of her, but she didn't expect Reiner to take it so seriously.

"So we can control the variables now and use these three Borren elements from different regions to verify this conjecture. What do you think?"

Reiner said, taking out some Borren elements from the two bottles he brought, and putting them into the measurement magic circle.

There was a flash of light, and he quickly got the reading.

"The Borren element from the Antojar demiplane has a relative element mass...10.90596!"