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The law of the elements?

If the paper on electromagnetic fields, new elements, and radioactivity presented by Reiner before was a complete and practical study, then the paper on the law of elements did not sound very attractive.

Because as Reiner said, almost all of the high-level mages here have been involved in this area of ​​research. In the eyes of many of them, the laws that could be found between elements had been thoroughly studied, and it was difficult to make any breakthrough studies. Especially after his Excellency Steinen put forward the idea of ​​arranging the elements according to their relative elemental masses, many mages even thought that this was the final answer.

Therefore, when Reiner put forward his own paper on the law of elements, under this preconceived notion, these high-level mages were not optimistic.

Even Pluto also glanced at President Demetrius with questioning eyes, not understanding what was the purpose of the paper.

“Reiner Ian Gray, before you explain this paper on the law of elements, I have a question that may sound rude. That is, have you read His Excellency Steinen’s recent paper on the law of elements?”

Broly, who was sitting next to Pluto, asked. Reiner smiled and replied.

“Of course, in fact, I think His Excellency Steinen’s method of arranging the elements according to their relative elemental mass is very close to the essence of the law of elements, and its periodicity is an ingenious idea. My own thesis is also based on Steinen’s idea.”

Broly didn’t speak, just nodded for Reiner to continue.

“First of all, I think I still need to let all the excellencies have an intuitive understanding of the elements I arranged. Let’s take a look at this table.”

Reiner signalled to President Demetrius, who waved his hand gently, projecting the list of elements arranged by Reiner into the air.

This was a form that did not look that beautiful. There were many vacancies. Although the order after removing the vacancies was roughly the same as His Excellency Steinen’s element table, there were several elements in the opposite position.

“It’s not beautiful at all.” Eagles Ferdo said.

The vacancies on this list seemed to tell everyone that there were more elements in the world that had not yet been ascertained, making the mages feel complicated.

For comparison, Reiner requested to project the element table of His Excellency Steinen. This table was much neater, with almost no vacancies, which was pleasing to the eye.

“First of all, one of my students found that the measured value of the ‘Borren’ element had a non-negligible error in the process of measuring the relative elemental mass. After that, she and I collected an assortment of the same elements from various places for measurement and found that this phenomenon is common in all elements. We know from the experiments in the previous paper that isotopes are present in almost all elements, which are the same elements but of different relative masses.”

Reiner continued, as if those who were listening to him were not the authorities of the academic world, but just the students of Luna Nova Magical Academy who were eager for knowledge.

He also mentioned several elements and isotopes with similar relative elemental mass. It could be seen that even if the relative elemental masses were similar, different elements still had completely different properties.

“Since there are isotopes, the relative elemental mass is not the fundamental reason for the difference between elements.”

Reiner’s words made the mages ponder. Indeed, the existence of isotopes caused the same element to show different relative elemental mass. Then His Excellency Steinen’s element ordering by relative elemental mass was questionable, at least, it had flaws.

“Because of this, I think there is a problem with His Excellency Steinen’s element ordering, and I started to optimize it.”

He showed some tables, which were data of some lighter elements obtained by him after using the electromagnetic magic circle to accelerate.

“My original thesis only relied on the similarity of the element properties to arrange, while leaving vacancies, but after learning about the electromagnetic separation magic circles, I conducted a series of experiments. Since I learned that an element contains electrons and the stream of electrons can dislodge these electrons, I repeatedly bombarded the same element with the stream of electrons, trying to remove all of the electrons it contains.”

Reiner first pointed to the Hydra element. If the electric mass of electrons was used as a benchmark, the particle obtained after repeated bombardment of this element with a relative elemental mass of approximately equal to 1, and its ratio of the relative elemental mass to the charge masses was approximately equal to 1, which meant that the Hydra element should contain an electron.

Similarly, the Borren element with a relative elemental mass of 12 had a mass-to-charge ratio of 2, which means it contained six electrons. Based on this, Reiner did several experiments. From the perspective of elements with relatively lighter masses, the amount of electrons they carry showed a gradual increase.

“Although this kind of experiment does have a certain margin of error, I believe that even if you use a more sophisticated instrument to test, you will get the same result.”

Reiner said. His experimental ideas were quite clever, making the high-level mages nod their heads approvingly.

“I defined the charge of the element as the number of nuclear charges. From here, it is deduced that the arrangement of the elements should be arranged according to the number of nuclear charges. Therefore, I sorted the elements according to the number of nuclear charges, while keeping some vacancies because the nuclear charges of the elements before and after these vacancies were not continuous.”

He showed the new elements discovered by Fina’s father and compared them with his periodic table.

“It can be seen that since the nuclear charge of the element ‘Clorin’ is 17 and the nuclear charge of the element ‘Kayla’ is 19, I infer that there is another element between them. Because the ‘Kayla’ element is extremely active and the ‘Clorin’ element is relatively inactive, so I think this new element should also be an element with extremely inactive alchemical properties, and from the point of view of its form, it should be a gas, which is the element discovered through the electromagnetic separation magic circle.”

Mages searched for the law of elements, not only to classify existing elements, but also to derive the law of the nature of the elements, as a basis for finding new elements in the future, and Reiner’s periodic table just happened to successfully predict the new element!

This was the order of elements that mages dreamed of!

“Wait a minute, Mr. Ian Gray.”

The way Pluto addressed Reiner had changed, and he raised his hand to interrupt Reiner’s speech slightly.

“According to your periodic table, between the element ‘Florin’ with a nuclear charge of 9 and the element ‘Thordian’ with a nuclear charge of 11, there should be another element, right?”

Hearing Pluto’s question, Reiner smiled slightly.

“Yes, Your Excellency Alterac. There should also be an inert element with inactive alchemical properties. This is also detailed in my paper. This element should be a gas with a relative elemental mass of about 20. At the same time, It can emit colorful light even when it is energized.”

Reiner showed the pages on which he had made predictions, and then he looked around the high-level mages and said softly.

“We can find out this element here.”