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【Discovery of Earth's veins】!

The wolves ran around the island and found another rich mining area easily, and the difficulty of mining was quite low.

Basically, as long as the rocks are blasted, and the stones are picked up anywhere with a basket, all the iron ore brought back will be of high quality.

The wolves also found a few other mining areas scattered around the island, alum, bauxite, etc., in a mess.

Xu Le said that Bermuda is rich in natural resources.

And to his surprise, the pack of wolves found a brine deposit along a depression on the island adjacent to the sea.

Seawater permeates in one direction and evaporates continuously, forming a brine lake in this area, accumulating a large amount of salt.

From the perspective of the sky, this brine lake is no different from other water sources, so it will not attract attention.

Only on-the-spot investigation can find out that the salt content of this pool is unbelievably high.

It is indeed useful to choose to let the wolves explore.

If I only rely on my two legs and the aerial vision of Xiaosha Tangyuan, I am afraid it will be difficult to find this brine lake...

Well, brine can also be made by boiling seawater, but it takes a lot of fuel and effort... It's better to find a ready-made one.

Riding a robust black panther, Xu Le came to the brine lake and picked up a small piece of white stone like scales.

"My friend in the studio, this is a very standard soda stone."

Xu Le brought the soda stone closer to the camera and explained, "Soda stone is one of the main mineral components of trona ore. After refining it, caustic soda can be prepared."

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Chapter 455 Handmade Soap

Caustic soda can be used to extract alumina from bauxite. Alumina can be used as an abrasive, and its strength is the same as that of red sapphire.

It can also be used to make soap... well, it's a very philosophical game item.

Of course, the premise is that the required caustic soda must be processed from a pool of brine first.

It's not difficult, but what Xu didn't expect was the process of preparing caustic soda from the soda mine next to the brine pond...

It turned out to be found in [Cooking].

Outrageous, boil a pot of caustic soda to make green tea?

Use the specially brought clay pots to put back two jars of brine, and after the sediment is clarified, Xu Le grinds the limestone to make lime milk.

Combine the two and heat to near boiling.

The unique pungent smell of lye kept wafting out. Xu Le pinched his nose and kept stirring, and the liquid level in the clay pot gradually dropped.

Wait until more than half of the evaporation, and then leave the mixed solution to cool, and then filter it again.

Continue to boil the filtered clear liquid until thick.

"That's pretty much crude caustic soda."

It's no wonder that in [Cooking], the whole process is exactly the same as cooking braised pork to collect the juice... Xu Le couldn't vomit, and felt uncomfortable.

He took out the solid crude caustic soda, took part of it and added water to melt it, then added bison's butter, and melted it over a low fire.

Meng Yiyi is cute and simple-minded, and has already shaken off the shadow of social death.

She grabbed Xu Le's arm, probed her head and asked, "Are you making handmade soap?"

"It's just saponification now." Xu Le replied, "To make shaped handmade soap, other processes are needed.

"For example, we need to do salting out later. After the salting out, let it stand and solidify to complete the soap base.

"After the soap base is remelted, other ingredients, such as flower petals, can be added to make handmade soap."

Meng Yiyi raised her hand: "I can do this!"

The little girl knows a lot... Xu Le looked at the little cutie who was eager to try, and moved out of the way:

"Well, keep the current stirring speed, and pay attention to avoid alkaline water."

Craftsman Xu was not at all hypocritical. He folded his arms and looked at it for a while, thinking that she could let her play by herself, so she simply assigned the soap making work.

"Aren't you worried about the hot lye splashing on Yiyi?" Lin Xihan asked with her bulging chest.

The little cutie opened her mouth to beg for food, which is not at all artificial, but Lin Xihan himself, as long as he recalled the teppanyaki meal two days ago, he felt as if his body was covered with ants.

Nowhere is comfortable.

Even now, when she talks, she clutches her toes tightly.

Fortunately, she couldn't see the barrage, otherwise she felt that she could dig all the way to the center of the earth.

"Hmm..." Xu Le raised his eyes from her toes, and Lin Xihan's energy also collapsed involuntarily where Xu Le's eyes touched her.

Xu Le said, "Don't worry, you can keep an eye on her."

"Stare, stare and stare." Lin Xihan snorted arrogantly, walked unnaturally, and came to Meng Yiyi's side.

Xu Le made up the knife from behind: "You have the same hands and feet."

"I want you to take care of it!" The long-legged Heipi stomped his feet angrily without looking back.

Ah... it's not that I poured wine for you two, you two almost snatched the wine jar from me...

Four baby salamanders hauled back two shipments of bauxite.

It is a yellow-brown porous ore with a loose structure.

Xu Le crushed the bauxite into granules with the grinder used to grind coal ore, and then put it into a stone mortar to continue grinding into powder.

Then add limestone powder and put it into the boiling caustic soda solution to react.

Raise the temperature with one [overload], then slowly cool down, filter, and precipitate...

[Skillful Craftsman] Skills control the fire throughout the process.

Hanging up, bah, it’s convenient to have skills. Normally speaking, the conditions that the island can provide can’t support the reaction at all...

Great craftsman Xu looked after the furnace, and among the smelted products, crystals continued to separate out.

Cooling, addition of solution, and separation by filtration were then repeated to obtain the product in the form of a block.

Finally, it enters the calciner for calcination, and gray-white ash is produced. Xu Le, wearing gloves, pinched a handful and explained:

"We have extracted alumina with high purity."

Barrage in the live broadcast room——

"Anyone understand? Explain?"

"Uh... there is an equation for preparing alumina from bauxite in the textbook, should I type it on the public screen?"

"No, the textbooks are all ideal conditions, right?"

"Alumina can be produced in this way. It can only be said that Xu Shen is a chemical genius..."

"No, if you carefully study Xu Shen's entire process, you will find that...a ghost is not enough to describe Xu Shen!"

"The hand is quite steady, the dose is controlled quite precisely, and the whole is a human-shaped control platform!"

"I don't really understand how Xu Shen operates."

"Just call 666."

"..."

Aluminum oxide powder can be used to make abrasives, replacing rock grinding knives...

And it can also be used as molding sand, so that more precise metal utensils can be cast.

This was a plan that Xu Le had already formed in his mind before processing the bauxite.

The abrasive is easy to say, he cut it out of clay as the base, then evenly coated one side with alumina powder, and fired it at low temperature.

After consolidation, a fairly dense whetstone is formed.

Although the service life is not up to the level of industrial production, it is enough to sharpen knives on the island.

From the successfully fired whetstones, Xu Le selected the small pieces with the firmest texture. After dipping them in water, he pressed his fingers on the edge of the Mo knife and polished them in circles.

Soon, the already sharp edge of Mo Dao became even more gleaming.

Although this kind of sharpening method is more time-consuming, as long as the hand is steady enough, the sharpness of the blade is far better than that of a grinder.

After Mo Dao was Xiao Huan Shou, who was also polished by him with the same process.

When swung, the cutting air makes almost no sound.

……

Meng Yiyi was holding the soap.

"Look at the thighs!"

On the white handmade soap, there are petals melted in it, as well as the floral fragrance of beeswax.

The added soap looks pretty good, and it is a good thing that can be sold as a product outside the island.

It makes people want to take a bath... Wait, Xu Le looked around the courtyard:

"Where's Xihan?"

"Sister Lin said she went to take a bath." The cutie chuckled, "Do you want to try handmade soap with your thighs?"

No, taking a bath is not as fun as sharpening a knife... He dipped his finger in some water and applied it to the blade, then twisted the whetstone and continued to grind it in circles.

"I have something to do, you go and wash."

"Oh..." The little cutie sounded a little disappointed, but when he rode the giant spirit, he started humming again.

"I love to take a shower for a good skin..."

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Chapter 456 Set Sail Again

If you can't figure it out, don't think about it... Captain Xu Da continued to work hard, sharpening the edges of tools such as iron axes and picks until they were sharp.

As he held the handle, the almost mirror-polished head reflected the sunlight, and he felt like the old father of God of War.

Just wanted to chop something with this thing.

After waving a few times, he greeted the group of orangutans and distributed the tools for collecting and felling.

His pets are now responsible for most of the resource gathering.

Although orangutans are not war pets, they are also a very important part of the labor force.

If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. The polished tools can at least increase the work efficiency by [-]%.

The orangutans who got the new tools were very excited, waving their axes and screaming, revealing the urge to chop things.

Is this a common problem among primates...

Can I teach them the battle dance of the Ax Gang...Xu Le decided.

After distributing the tools, Xu Le noticed that the cutie had neatly stacked up the soap before leaving.

Stack up a small pyramid.

The soap is light yellow in color, has a floral scent, and is cut into square pieces.

Inside the bar of soap on the top is a small blooming flower, the craftsmanship is remarkable.

I have to say that the little girl is meticulous in her work.

If I were to process it myself, I'm afraid I'd just throw it there in one piece and cut it up as I needed it...

Soap is also quite valuable when exchanged for materials.

The sanitation conditions on the island are limited, and there are very few things that can undertake the daily cleaning work.

Items such as saponins and mints, one is used to clean the skin and the other is used to clean the mouth.

Xu Le didn't have a big problem here. There was no shortage of mouth-clearing things like mint, and the sulfur-rich hot springs could also cleanse the skin.

But other players didn't have such good luck.