Chapter 2750 The Land of Firebirds (58)

When Albus was young, he went to Cairo to participate in the alchemy competition, but he didn't go just to participate in the competition.

Pomona looked through the notes he left, and one day when he was wandering around the paint market in Cairo, he discovered that dragon's blood was for sale, even though the market was visited by Muggles.

Vendors will brag to customers about how this bottle of blood is related to the story between saints, princes, princesses and giant beasts. This is nothing more than trying to raise the price, and customers are also well aware of the vendors' tricks. Not everyone

Each bottle is filled with "dragon blood".

Perhaps to prove that he knew the goods, or because he was young and energetic, Dumbledore also bought a bottle, but was fooled. From then on, he became interested in studying dragon's blood.

Slughorn once used dragon's blood in a Muggle home to fake the appearance of being attacked. This is because dragon's blood, like wizard's blood, retains magic power, but Muggle's blood does not.

People have always used dragon blood for potions. After all, dragon is a powerful creature, so its blood should also have powerful curative effects. However, Albus discovered that dragon blood can be used to clean the stove.

, used as a cleaner to remove stains, because he used to do that when he was young and doing housework.

When the twelve papers on dragon blood were first published, people would almost have thought that this paper was child's play if it weren't for the fact that he was the hero who defeated Gellert Grindelwald.

The ashes in the stove are mainly grease and plant ash, and dragon's blood can dissolve them. Pomona used this property of dragon's blood to make the magic potion needed for the maze.

Although they are all fire dragons, the Welsh Green Dragon, Hungarian Horntail, Chinese Fireball and Swiss Brachynosed Dragon Blood have different characteristics. Especially in terms of spiritual potions, the Chinese Fireball performs better than other dragons.

Feliwei believes that the animals attached to Lihuo do not really exist, but are consciousnesses based on the imagination of the caster.

If you observe the ghosts in Hogwarts carefully, you will find that although they are floating, they are not like the "dragon" in Père Lachaise Cemetery. When it discovers that all the curses eventually form a "circle", it will

After it was trapped, it immediately flew upwards, and Nicolème directed the purifying fire to prevent the "dragon" from continuing to rise.

This is also a major characteristic of the Philosopher's Stone. It can only restore "complete life" to souls bound by the earth. Nicoreme can cast spells and feel pain, and his body does not travel like a ghost.

Although he has passed the wall, his need for food is not as urgent as that of a living person, and he will feel strong hunger. When eating, he will not be like a ghost who cannot taste anything, but cannot feel "delicious".

Albus just has a sweet tooth and his appetite is not as good as Ron's. He only needs to see Ron eating to know that this dish must be delicious.

Food can bring happiness. If eating does not make you feel happy and is just a task that needs to be repeated constantly, then many people will probably forget to eat just like they forget to do their homework and feel the comfort after eating and drinking.

A pair of hands covered her eyes.

"Guess who I am?" the person behind her said in a deep voice.

Pomona thought he was childish. Who else could be in this place besides the two of them?

"Severus," she said angrily, "I'm reading a book, take your hands away!"

Sure enough, he let go of his hand, but did not stop disturbing her reading. He put his big nose to her neck and smelled carefully.

"What are you going to eat later?"

She felt that what he wanted to ask was not "real" food.

After coming out of the cinema that day, she suddenly went to the store next door, called Victoria's Secret, and bought several sets of "costumes" at the encouragement of the store clerk.

There is a proverb that says, the full stomach loathes the honeycomb. A satiated person will not be as hungry as he was when he was hungry.

"I want to eat out," she whispered, "I want to go shopping after eating."

"You want to go shopping?" he said without emotion.

"No, you can go to the store with me to choose the 'candy' you like."

He struggled for a while and finally said, "I prefer to keep surprises."

"So you won't go shopping with me?" Pomona asked.

"I want to go, but I'll wait for you outside the store."

She was quite satisfied with this compromise plan. She put down her book and was about to stand up to prepare to go out, when he suddenly kissed her.

Since they lived in seclusion, they didn't need to meet secretly as before, but something was missing. Just like the heated alcohol lamp was removed during the chemical experiment, the reaction was not so violent.

Sugar will soften when heated and turn into something like syrup. The bat blood "soup" placed at the door of Honeydukes will give the candy that flavor, but it is not like the bloody lollipop.

You only need to eat up the syrup on the surface, and the candy will return to its original taste. It's hard to imagine that Arianna likes this taste best. She thought Arianna would prefer to eat candies that feel harmless.

Pomona was either under the Weak Legs Curse, or like heated candy, she felt like she couldn't stand straight anymore. She held Severus in order to stand steady. There were strong muscles under his clothes. He was no longer what he was when he was young.

So thin.

After the kiss ended, they rubbed their ears together for a while, enjoying the wonderful experience brought by "chemistry".

The lifespan of magical creatures is much longer than that of humans, but Pomona likes food, magic and sleeping, and Felivi likes playing music and composing. These teachers are all surpassed by the "rising stars".

It's just that the prime of life of human beings is short, and she is afraid that he is gray-haired, but she is still like this. The last time they went out like this, others thought they were father and daughter, even though Severus looked serious and more serious than he actually was.

Older.

"Does it hurt?" he asked in a low voice.

"It's like being pricked by a spur," she said softly. "It hurts a little, but it doesn't feel like pain. It's more like excitement."

He laughed out loud.

"Why didn't I know you were so good at talking?"

'Because you are not the principal yet.'

She whispered in her heart.

"Go get ready." He let go of his hand around her waist.

When his back disappeared from the door, she felt that he had not lost interest, but was looking forward to a "big meal", and she had better not mess it up.

She glanced at the book on the table with nostalgia, but she actually wanted to continue reading.

"Let's read it when we get back." She said softly and left the study.

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The young man's gorgeous dazzling skills stole DuBoer's audience. Although he was a little reckless and impolite in doing so, no one blamed him.

Paracelsus is actually a pseudonym, meaning "towards Celsus". Celsus was an ancient Roman medical encyclopedia writer. In addition to his achievements in toxicology, the Swiss alchemist Theobas von

Hohenheim also made other contributions in other fields. For example, he invented the word "alcohol" and named the element zinc.

Lavoisier also named the elements oxygen and hydrogen. Many years ago, humans have known that water vapor and ice are transformed into liquid water, but no one has analyzed the critical point.

For example, the boiling temperature of water in high-altitude areas is lower than that in low-altitude areas. At the same 80 degrees Celsius, water boils in high-altitude areas but not in low-altitude areas, so there is a pressure-temperature curve.

Since the invention of the steam engine, people have become interested in the behavior of fluids under high temperature and pressure. Before reaching the curve boundary, water is still water. After passing the critical point, that is, at 22 MPa, when heated to 374 degrees, water and gas

The difference no longer exists, that is, it forms a state of being like water but not water.

Lavoisier proved that this supercritical gas and steam are the same thing. In other words, when someone opens the valve of a steam engine, a stream of high-temperature steam mixed with liquid will spurt out. This water is not formed by condensation of steam when it encounters water.

Even the "water vapor" people see is small water droplets after condensation of steam, similar to fog and clouds. The fluid in this state is extremely oxidizing.

However, such temperature and pressure could not be achieved with the technology of the 18th century. Lavoisier let the water vapor pass through a red-hot iron pipe. Originally, the reaction between the iron pipe and water vapor at room temperature was very slow, and the resulting product was still called

It is the reddish-brown ferric oxide of rust. In addition to hydrogen and oxygen, Lavoisier's experiment also obtained black ferric oxide.

At this time, the theory of phlogiston was still dominant, but there were still people like Boyle who believed that "element" should be the simplest and primitive substance, a deterministic, real, and perceptible physical object.

Affected by this, Warissier first listed a table of chemical elements, classifying 33 substances into gases, metals, non-metals and metal oxides. The gases include light, heat, and hydrogen and oxygen discovered and named by Lavoisier himself.

,nitrogen.

But these are not the keys that separate chemistry from alchemy.

Priestley, a member of the British Moonlight Society, went to Paris to discuss "air that eliminates phlogiston." Both the Moonlight Society, as a representative of the industrial revolution, and Lavoisier, a tax collector and aristocrat, had enough money.

The design of measuring equipment is very complex and expensive, and even the use of these equipment requires specialized personnel to be trained.

During the manipulation and recording of data, and the sharing of materials between Moonlight Society and researchers in Europe, a common language, metrics and terminology were needed, and old words and terminology from alchemy became impossible.

Therefore, formulating a new, clear, and less ambiguous "scientific language" has become the direction of their generation's efforts.

This new set of universal standards has been used into the 21st century. It seems that there is no hatred and war, and an international group of natural philosophers has been formed. In this system, fire is not an element, not even a substance, Pomona said.

The idea that there are animal spirits attached to Li Huo and forming "quasi-life" is completely delusional on her part.

Felivius did not say it explicitly, but since he supported consciousness, he did not support Pomona's theory.

Severus didn't say it clearly, but he supported the elemental theory and believed that the Soul Guard was a kind of water magic. Animal spirits possessed the water element, so he was on the same side as Pomona.

Pomona's talent is not like Neville's ability to communicate directly with plants, she can just feel what they need. After strengthening the connection with the "navel of the forest" through black vine water, this feeling has become more acute, absolutely

When most people see a vegetable, they don't think it is a "conscious" living being like a cat.

Neville continued to experiment on whether plants are conscious. He chose Mimosa pudica as a target. Although plants do not have eyes or noses, they still respond to temperature, humidity, and light. Lotus seeds that have been sleeping for thousands of years can still germinate, but they do not.

Meet the right environment.

Opponents believe that plants do not have nervous systems and do not have consciousness like animals.

Before Paracelsus, only sulfur and mercury were the sacred elements of alchemy. After Paracelsus added salt, there were three sacred elements, corresponding to the human spirit, soul and body respectively, and introduced

"Trinity". The human body is both a microcosm and a microcosm of the macrocosm. The study of the human body helps to understand the macrocosm, find commonalities between them, and build harmony between humans, nature and the Creator.

She poured the dream potion into the Goblet of Fire and let the fire bush in the maze "drink" the dream potion. If a person is awake, they will always meditate on the various consequences of certain things. When sleeping, the body will not be controlled by will.

Control, but the huge subconscious hidden under the sea. But she could not be sure whether this consciousness was generated by the Goblet of Fire itself, or whether it came from "outside", such as gods, devils and other entities in the invisible world.
To be continued...