Chapter 660: Lets Try Hand-Rubbing X-rays Together
X-rays?
Bones, hand bones, rays?
The first thing that popped into Garrett's mind was that famous photo from the history of science. Following that, a jumble of information sprung up:
Radiation, cancer, hematopoietic dysfunction, cataracts, cardiovascular diseases... Radiology departnt, radiation furlough, radiation allowance...
Beside his ear, a click-click sound as if from a Geiger counter rang out...
Garrett truly wished he could imdiately flee the room, don himself in a lead apron, and pull out a Geiger counter for a quick asurent. He cald himself down a bit and redirected his thoughts:
Don't panic, it can penetrate wood and stone, but lead can block it, and it's not just X-rays that can see through the body to the bones...
At the very least, the first application he developed upon arriving here was to use [Detect Magic] to view bone structures, which was of a similar nature...
Garrett took a deep breath, trying to calm his mind. He tentatively asked Cirella:
"Can you see this ray you produced with magic, um, like [Detect Magic]?"
"What?"
Miss Silver Dragon widened her eyes in surprise:
"Why use [Detect Magic] to see? I can see it directly! Oh, alright, let try again..."
She raised her hand a second ti. Garrett suddenly jumped aside:
"Don't aim at ! No, don't aim at a person! Cirella, rember, unless it's necessary, never aim this ray at people!"
"Oh... okay." Cirella replied, her ear tips drooping a bit. She turned to ensure her palm was facing the wall and looked back at Garrett:
"Are you ready? One, two, three!"
Garrett opened his ditative vision. In his field of view, it was empty, nothing lit up. He looked inquiringly at Cirella, who also shook her head:
"It's clearer to just look directly, the ditative vision is... h."
Well then, it seems that the ray Cirella produced and what [Detect Magic] reveals are not the sa thing. As for how to determine whether Cirella's ray is X-ray or not...
"Mr. Norwood!" Garrett called again to the transformative mage in the Mage Tower, the versatile contractor, fifth-level mage Mr. Norwood:
"Help out, get a high-voltage vacuum tube ready..."
For the sake of artificial X-rays, Garrett had specially cleared out a room on the lower level of the Mage Tower, next to the morgue.
Mage Norwood was responsible for molding the glass tube, fitting one end with a spiral-shaped, tungsten-like mithril wire, and the other with a mithril plate;
Aurora, as a sculpting mage, was responsible for evacuating the glass tube as much as possible before letting Mage Norwood seal it;
Then, Mage Norwood connected the mithril wire to the Mage Tower's electrical lines, making it glow red-hot, and Aurora, eager to test, grabbed the wires connected to both ends of the vacuum tube:
"Just need to power it, right? Let try—"
"Wait!"
Garrett raised his hand. Two invisible servants from the Mage Tower worked together to move a box of lead sheets. Mage Norwood used his ntal power to quickly shape the lead sheets to shield the vacuum tube and the others. Garrett then breathed a sigh of relief:
"Alright. Give it a try?"
Aurora closed her eyes, concentrated, and sparks of electricity leaped from her fingertips, surging into the glass tube. anwhile, she turned her head to the right, looking hopefully at Cirella.
Cirella peered from behind the lead sheets at the vacuum tube. After watching for a while, she firmly shook her head:
"I didn't see anything!"
Garrett wiped his sweat. This thod of hand-rubbed vacuum tubes and manual electrification, no matter how many tis he saw it, still felt unnatural to him...
But electrifying the vacuum tube was correct. Each step strictly followed the descriptions in "dical Physics":
The vacuum tube, heating the cathode to emit thermoelectrons, then applying high-voltage DC electricity across the cathode and anode of the vacuum tube, causing the cathode's electron stream to strike the anode target and emit X-rays...
Was the vacuum tube not evacuated thoroughly?
Or was the voltage insufficient?
Or perhaps, the cathode wasn't hot enough to emit enough thermoelectrons?
Garrett led everyone in repeatedly revising the experintal design. Increasing the current, heating the cathode wire more and more. The [Dark Vision] saw images turning redder, and finally, with the naked eye, redness was visible, then—
"Snap!"
The tal wire burned up, shattering the vacuum tube...
Well then,
it seems it wasn't evacuated enough, otherwise it wouldn't have burned. Garrett asked Aurora to evacuate the vacuum tube even more, even emptier—
"Snap!"
The vacuum tube shattered...
"This... thicken the tube walls... make the glass tube stronger... Mr. Norwood, please..."
"Snap!"
Another attempt, another shatter—
By alternating adding water and flour thod, Garrett finally obtained a glass tube that exhausted Aurora's ntal power, evacuated to the maximum. Then, power it, let the mithril wire heat to its hottest:
"Aurora, power it—"
Aurora Worton vigorously summoned her ntal power.
This level-six mage, striving towards level seven in the sculpting magic discipline, her fingertips sparked with unprecedented brilliant electricity.
Even her long uncut brilliant golden hair exploded like a lion's mane, oh no, more like a golden mane...
If Garrett had a cara and was in the mood, he would definitely capture this scene. But he was not in the mood at all; he just looked expectantly at Cirella, waiting for the young lady to give an answer:
"Um... there seems to be a little bit, but not much. It's even less than the light from the starry do; if you're not paying attention, you really can't see it..."
"What should we do then? Garrett, what else needs to be improved?"
In the basent, two mages and a silver dragon all turned their gaze to Garrett. Garrett scratched his head:
"So... is it still a voltage issue? The voltage needs to be even higher..."
He recalled that dical X-ray machines between the anodes and cathodes seed to require tens to hundreds of kilovolts...
"I really can't do it anymore!" Aurora scread. She couldn't go any higher! If it were any higher, her ntal power couldn't handle it!
"No need for you." Garrett shook his head. To increase the voltage, there were two ideas: one was to get a transforr, to boost the voltage from 220 volts to 220 kilovolts; the other...
Seek the Lord of Thunder?
Sinful, sinful, that was his teacher, not a human power generator...
Of course, the Lord of Thunder was in seclusion and couldn't be dragged out for now. Garrett changed tactics and directly approached human power generator number two, his senior sister in the study of electromagnetism, Archmage Philby:
"Sister, sister, help out! Cirella discovered sothing strange, we're trying to reproduce it... It's a strange ray in the sunlight, might be related to sculpting magic!"
"Since it's a ray from the sunlight, why didn't you call ?"
Turning around, Archmage Byerbo stood behind him, smiling, arms crossed.
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