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Chapter 33 - Finding Binilquadoctium

(Dr. Gyan Singh's Point of View.)

After hearing the story Mr. Prabhakarna Sripalawardhana Atapattu Jaya Suriya Laxmana Sri Ram Krishna Shiva Venkata Raja Sekhara Sriniwasana Trichipalli Yekya Parampeel Parambatur Chinna Swami Muthu Swami Venu Gopal Iyer gave us leave of a week. He called his assistant to take the Honeycomb Lily to the lab.

"Dr. Gyan Singh, I would be happy if you join the research after your leave is over." spoke Mr. Prabhakarna Sripalawardhana Atapattu Jaya Suriya Laxmana Sri Ram Krishna Shiva Venkata Raja Sekhara Sriniwasana Trichipalli Yekya Parampeel Parambatur Chinna Swami Muthu Swami Venu Gopal Iyer to me.

"Ok, sir. I would love to assist the scientists in this research." I replied.

"Nice, now you all can go." Mr. Prabhakarna Sripalawardhana Atapattu Jaya Suriya Laxmana Sri Ram Krishna Shiva Venkata Raja Sekhara Sriniwasana Trichipalli Yekya Parampeel Parambatur Chinna Swami Muthu Swami Venu Gopal Iyer spoke. Then I went to my hotel. I rested for the whole week. I really needed rest after this unforgettable adventure. After my leave ended I went back to HQ where I came to know that Mr. Ajay Kumar has really resigned and now he is an Electronic Rickshaw or E - Rickshaw driver in Delhi. I also found out that Mr. Lakshman Prasad Ganesh Prasad Hanumaan Chettri was still working but he was just on one more weeks leave as he went to his family that is in Sikkim.

In HQ I went to Mr. Sujal Suyash Upadhyay who took me to lab. We researched in lab. The research took two years to complete but we were happy as we found the cure of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome commonly known as AIDS. We made a serum from Honeycomb Lily nector that could kill Human Immunodeficiency Virus commonly called HIV. Within a year we cured all the people who were suffering from HIV still we had a lot of serum left. Serum made up of nector of 2 Honeycomb Lily was enough. We still had serum made up of remaining 8 Honeycomb Lilies. We stored in an specially designed fridges. Then Government gave our team an award, our salary was increased and leave for a month. In that leave I researched about the capsule that the vodyanoygave to me.I tried to react it with different things but it didn't reacted with anything. I conducted a lot of physical and chemical experiments but it didn't worked. Then I got an idea. I went to the lab and brought one molar solution of the serum made up of Honeycomb Lily Nector. (Molar concentration is a measure of the concentration of a chemical species, in particular of a solute in a solution, in terms of amount of substance per unit volume of solution. In chemistry, the most commonly used unit for molarity is the number of moles per liter, having the unit symbol mol/L or mol/dm³ in SI unit. Molar concentration or molarity is most commonly expressed in units of moles of solute per litre of solution. For use in broader applications, it is defined as amount of substance of solute per unit volume of solution, or per unit volume available to the species, represented by lowercase c. In thermodynamics the use of molar concentration is often not convenient because the volume of most solutions slightly depends on temperature due to thermal expansion. This problem is usually resolved by introducing temperature correction factors, or by using a temperature-independent measure of concentration such as molality. The reciprocal quantity represents the dilution (volume) which can appear in Ostwald's law of dilution. If a molecular entity dissociates in solution, the concentration refers to the original chemical formula in solution, the molar concentration is sometimes called formal concentration or formality (FA) or analytical concentration (cA).

The sum of molar concentrations gives the total molar concentration, namely the density of the mixture divided by the molar mass of the mixture or by another name the reciprocal of the molar volume of the mixture. In an ionic solution, ionic strength is proportional to the sum of the molar concentration of salts. Sum of products of molar concentrations and partial molar volumes is 1. The molar concentration depends on the variation of the volume of the solution due mainly to thermal expansion.)

I took that capusle and cut a small part of it. I placed that part in 1 molar solution of the serum made up of Honeycomb Lily nector. I kept it in a cool and dry place, away from sunlight or any other source of heat. I didn't touched the solution for 2 days I just used to observe if there is any change. But there was no change. On the third day I again came to observe, there was no big change but I daw that the colour of solution has been changed from Orange to Grey. The next day when I came the part of capsule was dissolved in the solution. Then I decomposed the solution by the process of electrical decomposition or you can say electrolysis (In chemistry and manufacturing, electrolysis is a technique that uses direct electric current (DC) to drive an otherwise non-spontaneous chemical reaction. Electrolysis is commercially important as a stage in the separation of elements from naturally occurring sources such as ores using an electrolytic cell. The voltage that is needed for electrolysis to occur is called the decomposition potential. The word "lysis" means to separate or break, so in terms, electrolysis would mean "breakdown via electricity". Electrolysis is the passing of a direct electric current through an electrolyte producing chemical reactions at the electrodes and decomposition of the materials.

The main components required to achieve electrolysis are an electrolyte, electrodes, and an external power source. A partition (e.g. an ion-exchange membrane or a salt bridge) is optional to keep the products from diffusing to the vicinity of the opposite electrode.

The electrolyte is a chemical substance which contains free ions and carries electric current (e.g. an ion-conducting polymer, solution, or a ionic liquid compound). If the ions are not mobile, as in most solid salts, then electrolysis cannot occur. A liquid electrolyte is produced by:

1. Solvation or reaction of an ionic compound with a solvent (such as water) to produce mobile ions.

2. An ionic compound melted by heating.

The electrodes are immersed separated by a distance such that a current flows between them through the electrolyte and are connected to the power source which completes the electrical circuit. A direct current supplied by the power source drives the reaction causing ions in the electrolyte to be attracted toward the respective oppositely charged electrode.

Electrodes of metal, graphite and semiconductor material are widely used. Choice of suitable electrode depends on chemical reactivity between the electrode and electrolyte and manufacturing cost. Historically, when non-reactive anodes were desired for electrolysis, graphite (called plumbago in Faraday's time) or platinum were chosen.[18] They were found to be some of the least reactive materials for anodes. Platinum erodes very slowly compared to other materials, and graphite crumbles and can produce carbon dioxide in aqueous solutions but otherwise does not participate in the reaction. Cathodes may be made of the same material, or they may be made from a more reactive one since anode wear is greater due to oxidation at the anode. The key process of electrolysis is the interchange of atoms and ions by the removal or addition of electrons due to the applied current. The desired products of electrolysis are often in a different physical state from the electrolyte and can be removed by physical processes (e.g. by collecting gas above an electrode or precipitating a product out of the electrolyte).

The quantity of the products is proportional to the current, and when two or more electrolytic cells are connected in series to the same power source, the products produced in the cells are proportional to their equivalent weight. These are known as Faraday's laws of electrolysis.

Each electrode attracts ions that are of the opposite charge. Positively charged ions (cations) move towards the electron-providing (negative) cathode. Negatively charged ions (anions) move towards the electron-extracting (positive) anode. In this process electrons are effectively introduced at the cathode as a reactant and removed at the anode as a product. In chemistry, the loss of electrons is called oxidation, while electron gain is called reduction.

When neutral atoms or molecules, such as those on the surface of an electrode, gain or lose electrons they become ions and may dissolve in the electrolyte and react with other ions.

When ions gain or lose electrons and become neutral, they will form compounds that separate from the electrolyte. Positive metal ions like Cu2+ deposit onto the cathode in a layer. The terms for this are electroplating, electrowinning, and electrorefining.

When an ion gains or loses electrons without becoming neutral, its electronic charge is altered in the process. Decomposition potential or decomposition voltage refers to the minimum voltage (difference in electrode potential) between anode and cathode of an electrolytic cell that is needed for electrolysis to occur.

The voltage at which electrolysis is thermodynamically preferred is the difference of the electrode potentials as calculated using the Nernst equation. Applying additional voltage, referred to as overpotential, can increase the rate of reaction and is often needed above the thermodynamic value. It is especially necessary for electrolysis reactions involving gases, such as oxygen, hydrogen or chlorine.

The amount of electrical energy that must be added equals the change in Gibbs free energy of the reaction plus the losses in the system. The losses can (in theory) be arbitrarily close to zero, so the maximum thermodynamic efficiency equals the enthalpy change divided by the free energy change of the reaction. In most cases, the electric input is larger than the enthalpy change of the reaction, so some energy is released in the form of heat. In some cases, for instance, in the electrolysis of steam into hydrogen and oxygen at high temperature, the opposite is true and heat energy is absorbed. This heat is absorbed from the surroundings, and the heating value of the produced hydrogen is higher than the electric input. Pulsating current results in products different from DC. For example, pulsing increases the ratio of ozone to oxygen produced at the anode in the electrolysis of an aqueous acidic solution such as dilute sulphuric acid. Electrolysis of ethanol with pulsed current evolves an aldehyde instead of primarily an acid. Galvanic cells and batteries use spontaneous, energy-releasing redox reactions to generate an electrical potential that provides useful power. When a secondary battery is charged, its redox reaction is run in reverse and the system can be considered as an electrolytic cell). After electrolysis the capsule was in powdered form then I researched for the whole month, wasted my whole leave on it but that was not in vain. After the whole research I found out that it is 'Binilquadoctium' that is Element 2048.

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