Into Unscientific

“Hg antimony oxide?”

 Hearing is greater than what comes out of the mouth.

Wang Haoran was stunned, and after a few seconds he blurted out:

“Comrade Yu Min, are you talking about mercurochrome?”

Da Da nodded slightly:

 “That’s right, it’s mercurochrome.”

Wang Haoran suddenly frowned, with some doubts in his tone:

“Comrade Yu Min, although the information on the development of nuclear weapons in various countries is currently classified as top secret, everyone knows more or less about the materials because the properties of many substances are clear.”

“As far as I know, mercury antimony oxide is not a known neutron source material, right?”

 As Wang Haoran said.

At present, there are only three countries that have hydrogen bomb technology, namely the wooly bear and John Bull the eagle.

These three countries have set all information about the hydrogen bomb as top national secrets. Even the stuffed bear who has a good relationship with the rabbits has never leaked even a letter.

But on the other hand.

 Although the rabbits cannot obtain this information, some contents can be deduced from the perspective of principles.

 For example, the neutron scattering process, or the neutron source.

 The neutron source is the ignition device of the atomic bomb. The purpose is to maximize the energy release of the nuclear explosion. That is, to achieve the required algebra of the chain reaction.

 If the nuclear material becomes subcritical due to thermal expansion before the required number of generations is reached, then the nuclear bomb becomes a stink bomb.

To complete the above steps, the selection of neutron source materials is actually very limited:

 First of all, it must be radioactive, eject as many neutrons as possible at the same time, and the scattering cross section must be as large as possible. There are only a few that meet the conditions.

 Theoretically, the most suitable neutron source for conventional nuclear bombs is polonium-beryllium source, where beryllium is beryllium-9 and polonium is polonium-210 synthesized in artificial reactors.

In addition, optical neutron sources can also be used in nuclear reactors as lower-intensity sub-neutron sources, such as californium-252 and so on.

 As for greater than the mentioned mercury antimony oxide.

Wang Haoran is certain that no country will produce this stuff as a neutron source material.

Perhaps because he felt that his verbal persuasion was relatively limited, Wang Haoran quickly picked up the pen and paper again and started calculating on the spot:

“The molecular formula of mercurochrome is Hg2O7Sb7, the molecular weight is 750.65, and the PSA is 113.63000.”

“If it is used as a neutron source material, the theoretical mass defect released per unit is equal to 0.0032293amu, and its binding energy is equal to 2.923MeV.”

“Then considering the initial nuclides, the system energy ratio should be.”

Those who have studied physics in college should all know this.

 The so-called binding energy of a solid refers to the energy required for its components to combine into it.

 This energy is equal to the mass defect minus the energy or mass released when a bound system (whose potential energy is usually lower than the sum of the potential energies of its components) is created, and which is what keeps the system together.

 It involves van der Waals force, which is strictly speaking a category of electromagnetic force. However, a correction term called electric dipole moment will be added to the calculation.

  Based on this framework, we can determine whether a substance is suitable as a fission or fusion material by calculating the system energy ratio.

For example, for a deuterium atom, the mass defect is equal to 0.0023884amu, and its binding energy is almost equal to 2.23MeV, which means that much energy is required to split a deuterium atom.

 The energy released during nuclear fusion or nuclear fission is the “fuel”—the difference between the binding energy of the initial nuclide and the binding energy of the fission or fusion product.

 Actually.

This energy can also be calculated from the large mass difference between the fuel and the product, using previous measurements of the atomic masses of known nuclides, whereas similar nuclides always have the same mass.

This mass difference occurs once the heat and radiation emitted are removed, and is necessary for measuring the (rest) mass of the (non-excited) nuclide involved in such calculations.

 More than ten minutes later.

Wang Haoran put down his pen again, and his frown became more intense:

“The system energy ratio is 5.442. This ratio should not be able to release enough energy to trigger nuclear fusion—even nuclear fission is choked.”

Da Da did not interrupt Wang Haoran's calculations from the beginning to the end. At this time, facing Wang Haoran's doubts, he simply smiled:

“Comrade Haoran, you are right. If it is just pure mercurochrome, it does lack in energy intensity.”

“But what if we add some other substance, say cesium metal?”

Wang Haoran was suddenly startled:

 “Metal cesium?”

Yuda nodded, carefully pulled out a few pieces of calculation paper from the documents in front of him, and handed them to Wang Haoran through Li Jue's assistant Zhou Cai:

“Comrade Haoran, as you can see, this is a report that the comrades from the heavy water reactor in the Capital FS District spent a week working on.”

“The observation period of this report is as long as 11 days, and the relevant data are all derived from actual measurements. You will understand after reading it once.”

Wang Haoran raised his eyebrows, took the report from Zhou Cai's hand, and started reading it immediately.

“Place mercury antimony oxide and metal cesium in a special container, apply high pressure and high radiation, the intensity is”

“After 39 hours, the material system energy ratio increased by 5.87%”

“After 77 hours, the material system energy ratio increased by 13.5%”

“After 143 hours, the material system energy ratio increased.”

Every time Wang Haoran reads a sentence, his tone becomes more solemn.

At the end of the day, he could even hold the document a little unsteadily, and the pages of the book made a rustling sound.

 After reading everything from beginning to end.

Wang Haoran just put down the document in his hand with a look of astonishment on his face and was completely silent.

Yu Da did not ask him what he thought when he saw this. For Da Da, who is shy and reserved, he would not take the initiative to do such a slap in the face.

　　A long time passed.

Wang Haoran finally spoke:

"The data is OK. Judging from the report, specially treated mercury antimony oxide can indeed be used as a neutron source." "But. But"

Wang Haoran thought for a long time, until his facial features were a little tangled, and he couldn't help but ask:

“But Comrade Yu Min, how did you discover this idea?”

Wang Haoran’s dilemma is not that he cannot afford to lose. As a comrade who is willing to dedicate himself, Wang Haoran is still very broad-minded in terms of consciousness and mind.

After confirming that mercury antimony oxide is indeed feasible as a miniature neutron source, he was not ashamed of himself for backing up the praise. On the contrary, his heart was already full of excitement at this time - because this represented the miniature neutron source. The neutron bomb is expected to be available!

But on the other hand.

 He could not imagine how Yu Da discovered this track.

This thing is very different from traditional nuclides

 To use an example from later generations, everyone is discussing which car has the word "AO" in its name. Some people say Alto, some say Audi, and some say Ola.

At this time, someone suddenly said that Ultraman also met the requirements, and then everyone discussed for a long time and found that Ultraman can really be driven as a car - the flying speed of this thing is measured in Mach

Looking at the troubled Wang Haoran, Yu Yu pointed at Xu Yun without any burden:

“Comrade Haoran, didn’t I just say that these are all ideas proposed by consultant Xu Yun.”

“So he is the biggest contributor behind the whole thing. I just did some simple calculations.”

Xu Yun’s mouth twitched a few times:

ˆ “.”

 Good guy, your harmless-looking round head is so sinister.

The whole process is not what you said it is at all, is it?

 After Zhu Guangya led the team and assigned the task of detonating two bombs together, the organization actually discussed the feasibility of detonating three bombs in private.

However, even the big leaders in the capital did not have much confidence in this at that time, so the so-called discussion process was not very formal. Everyone said whatever they thought of, which was a bit similar to the brainstorming of later generations.

One of the characteristics of brainstorming is that ideas can be wild and unrestrained. Whether it can be implemented is another matter.

 So after Xu Yun realized that everyone was stuck, he casually came up with an idea:

 Can mercury antimony oxide be used as a neutron source?

 Hg antimony oxide.

This thing is quite famous in the military fan circle, because there is a rumored weapon made of mercury antimony oxide.

This weapon is called

Mercurochrome nuclear bomb.

 Rumors about the mercury-red nuclear bomb appeared in the 1990s. It is said that it is a miniaturized tactical nuclear weapon and a nuclear fusion weapon that was lost after the separation of the Mao Xiong family.

 It uses antimony mercury oxide as the neutron source, which is greatly reduced in size compared to the neutron source used in general hydrogen bombs using atomic bombs.

 Coupled with the fact that thermonuclear fusion has no critical mass limit, the entire nuclear bomb is small in size and light in weight.

 Generally, a small mercury-red nuclear bomb may only have a fist, but its lethality can reach the order of 10,000 tons, which is many times more energy efficient than existing conventional nuclear bombs.

The core evidence to support this conjecture is that Lunev once said that Mao Xiong had lost many portable suitcase nuclear bombs before they separated. This kind of nuclear bomb weighs 55 kilograms. In terms of quality, it is still different from ordinary nuclear bombs. Relatively large.

Opponents say that mercurochrome nuclear bombs do not exist because the binding energy of antimony mercury oxide itself is not sufficient to support the completion of nuclear fusion.

 In a sense.

The mercury-red nuclear bomb is equivalent to the more mysterious Yu Min configuration, and no one knows whether it exists or not.

The main difference between the two is that there is indeed a lot of evidence that the Rabbits' hydrogen bomb is different from the traditional T-U configuration. This was actually vaguely mentioned in the Rabbits' documentary "Codename 221", which means that the balance is more tilted [ There is one party.

 There are no examples of mercury-red nuclear bombs, and logically speaking they are closer to non-existence.

In addition, since mercurochrome nuclear bombs are mentioned, let’s popularize the science or correct a few wrong rumors.

 First of all, regarding the origin of the mercury-red nuclear bomb, there is currently a theory that rumors of the mercury-red nuclear bomb started on December 30, 2014.

At that time, a villager in a certain place accidentally discovered a wooden box. When he opened it, he found six artillery shells inside, with information about the shells written on it. The most eye-catching one was "Made by Wooly Bear" and "1967". Manufacturing”, and “mercurochrome”.

The last few shells were urgently transported away by local officials. Since then, there has been a lot of news related to mercurochrome nuclear bombs in the world.

This statement seems to want to label the mercurochrome nuclear bomb as a domestic rumor, but in fact, a closer analysis will reveal that this rumor has too many flaws.

 First of all, there is the snake-like ‘somewhere’. Since even the information about artillery shells can be transmitted so clearly, why are the place names so vague?

Secondly, there is the so-called stuffed bear. If this thing was made by stuffed bears, then it should be written about stuffed bears, right? —Can a villager understand Mao Xiongwen?

What's more, foreign discussions about mercury-red nuclear bombs have appeared as early as the last century. You can even see the manufacturing method of mercury-red nuclear bombs on arXiv. Although that paper is most likely a foreign civil science paper, it was published in 1997. .

Another rumor about mercurochrome nuclear bombs comes from some marketing accounts. Most of these marketing accounts will pronounce a sentence using AI dubbing of Monkey King, Northeastern accent, or Guangxi accent:

[Professor Zimmer, director of the Center for Science and Security Research at King's College London, has been discussing the possibility of the existence of a "mercurochrome nuclear bomb" with nuclear weapons scientists from both East and West for many years. They finally concluded that it was just a hoax. 】

This is actually a very outrageous rumor, even more unreliable than the mercury-red nuclear bomb itself.

 Where is it unreliable?

That is, King's College London does not have a science and security studies center at all. It only has a national security studies major, and the science and security of nuclear and biological weapons is one of the topics.

From the official website of King's College London, we can see that there are only 14 professors serving this course since the 1990s, and none of them is named Zimmer.

Even the name "Zimmer" does not conform to British naming conventions - it is a very standard German name.

Another rumor based on mercurochrome nuclear bombs is the so-called [mercurochrome scam], which actually has little to do with mercurochrome nuclear bombs:

 Most of the mercurochrome scams on the domestic Internet do not mean that mercury red nuclear bombs do not exist, but that people often say that they have spot mercury antimony oxide, and then they can conduct certain private transactions.

For example, on October 16, 2019, Chengdu issued a case report. A person named Li Mouxing was introduced to Hu Mouhua, and through Hu Mouhua's matchmaking, he found Zeng Mouchun and planned to purchase mercurochrome.

After the two parties agreed on a price of US$12 million per kilogram, Li Mouxing sent a remittance of one million yuan to the other party.

 As it turned out, the other party disappeared after receiving the money, and Li Mouxing had no choice but to call the police.

 In addition, those who are interested can also search for mercurochrome, where there are many "sellers".

Of course.

Just watch the fun, don't be fooled - regardless of whether mercurochrome nuclear bombs exist or not, mercury antimony oxide is a highly controlled military material. Only six countries in the world have even reported production processes, which is more than the number of countries with nuclear weapons. There are still few countries.

 In a sense, it is slightly less difficult to enrich uranium than to obtain antimony mercury oxide.

all in all.

The existence of mercury-red nuclear bombs is still inconclusive, and what is certain is that even if mercury-red nuclear bombs do exist, it cannot be as simple as a neutron source composed of a substance such as antimony mercury oxide.

But the discussion at the base that day was a brainstorming session, so Xu Yun casually mentioned an idea.

 This is a bit like everyone discussing the future trend of fighter jets. Someone said, "Can an aircraft carrier go to heaven?" 】

Then

A few days later, Yu sent an aircraft carrier capable of going to the sky to Xu Yun.

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