"Being required to hear about his girlfriend for hours on end is not as fun as it sounds." Senku said wryly. "However, the big oaf, dimwitted he may be, is durable. He has so much endurance, it's like someone's cheating. I have none. So he's suited to manual labour and I am not. There's a balance there, after all, everyone has different strengths."
Senku believed that when people worked together, they were stronger, because everyone had a skill that someone else might not have.
"Yeah, you pour the solution over the statues, it's not the alcohol that's the problem. If you ingest nitric acid, that's a quick way to die. The alcohol...well at 96% proof, our brandy will get you drunk, certainly. It's not particularly good though. Passable."
He was all too happy to keep talking science, all day, every day. "I'm glad you asked. When I began, the nitric acid we were using came from a natural source, it was dripping down from a cave inhabited by bats, made essentially from guano of course, which was good in the small scale, but if you really want to manufacture nitric acid, you need platinum. We happened to acquire a piece of platinum on treasure island, so once we put it under pressure and add ammonia, which is incredibly easy to come by, it oxidizes into nitric oxide. This gets done twice and added to water and you're finished!"
None of that exactly sounded like a quick or easy process, actually, but compared to how long it would take to make a new natural source? Much much easier.
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Senku believed that when people worked together, they were stronger, because everyone had a skill that someone else might not have.
"Yeah, you pour the solution over the statues, it's not the alcohol that's the problem. If you ingest nitric acid, that's a quick way to die. The alcohol...well at 96% proof, our brandy will get you drunk, certainly. It's not particularly good though. Passable."
He was all too happy to keep talking science, all day, every day. "I'm glad you asked. When I began, the nitric acid we were using came from a natural source, it was dripping down from a cave inhabited by bats, made essentially from guano of course, which was good in the small scale, but if you really want to manufacture nitric acid, you need platinum. We happened to acquire a piece of platinum on treasure island, so once we put it under pressure and add ammonia, which is incredibly easy to come by, it oxidizes into nitric oxide. This gets done twice and added to water and you're finished!"
None of that exactly sounded like a quick or easy process, actually, but compared to how long it would take to make a new natural source? Much much easier.