1842 65438+ 10 In October, my father took his family to St. Petersburg, Russia, where he opened a factory for manufacturing mines and explosives. Because of the language barrier, Nobel couldn't go to a local school after he came to Russia, so he had to hire a tutor to teach them Russian and common sense.
After studying hard, Nobel quickly caught up with the courses in Russian schools and achieved excellent results in every exam as before. At this time, Nobel was full of interest and longing for explosives, so he often stole explosives from his father's factory and detonated them secretly.
When Nobel's dangerous behavior was banned, he did something that no one expected-researching and manufacturing explosives by himself. Nobel found the formula for making gunpowder in his father's book and made gunpowder himself. He found the charcoal burned in winter from home, scraped the sulfur off the matches, and then went to his father's factory to steal potassium nitrate.
After many experiments, Nobel knew the best mixing ratio of these ingredients when making gunpowder. /kloc-at the age of 0/5, Nobel went to Italy and other countries to study according to his father's wishes, and returned to Sweden after graduation. After living abroad for several years, Nobel realized the importance of language, so he studied English, French and German in his spare time.
Later, when studying in the United States, Nobel learned about the actual situation of industrial development at that time and realized the importance of explosives to future life. 1854, he returned to his father and decided to engage in chemical research in the future and transform the existing explosives.
In fact, in the Tang Dynasty, black powder was invented in China, but it was very dangerous when transported and used. If you are not careful, it will cause explosion and fire. Later, black powder spread to Europe. Europeans are not satisfied with the performance of black powder, so they want to make more violent explosives. Nobel is in the era of this demand.
On one occasion, Nobel heard that someone in France had developed an explosive with good performance, and he could no longer resist the impulse to transform gunpowder. Nobel's enthusiasm for developing gunpowder was once again stimulated.
In this development process, Nobel almost lost his young life. Because when Nobel's experiment was about to succeed, his laboratory suddenly exploded. When people thought that Nobel had ruined his life, a miracle happened. When the smoke cleared, Nobel climbed out of the ruins, covered in scars and blood.
However, regardless of physical pain, Nobel jumped up with excitement in the shocked eyes of everyone, because this time he succeeded. He said: As long as the experiment is successful, pain is nothing at all.
Next, Nobel began to develop a stabilizer for nitroglycerin. At first, he put nitroglycerin and black powder together, but that would only cause burning rather than frying; Later, he used methanol liquid instead of black powder, which achieved good results this time and obtained a patent for this invention in Sweden. In this way, Nobel and his father came to France with this patent.
Charles Louis Napolé on Bonaparte attached great importance to their inventions, gave them 654.38 million francs and allowed them to set up a laboratory in Helenbo. When Nobel and his father were immersed in great joy, something unfortunate happened.
An unexpected explosion happened in Helen Poe's laboratory, which not only blew up Nobel's father into paraplegia, but also killed Nobel's younger brother who was doing experiments. More importantly, after the explosion, people became disgusted with Nobel's experiments, so the disgraced Nobel returned to Sweden.
In order not to hurt the innocent, Nobel rented a boat on Lake Mara and built a laboratory on it. His crazy behavior earned him the title of "scientific madman". However, it is very inconvenient to do experiments on board, so after many applications, the government allowed Nobel to build the world's first nitroglycerin factory far from the city.
At this time, Nobel didn't realize that the danger was approaching him quietly. Nitroglycerin is made by the reaction of concentrated sulfuric acid and glycerol, so there is often sulfuric acid residue in the finished product, which will promote the decomposition of nitroglycerin itself and lead to explosion.
As a result, when nitroglycerin produced by Nobel was sold all over the world, bad news came back to Nobel's ears from all over the world-in many places, trains, ships, warehouses and factories all exploded because of nitroglycerin. This catastrophic explosion made people panic. Therefore, governments all over the world prohibit the use of nitroglycerin.
However, Nobel was not depressed because governments banned nitroglycerin. On the contrary, it strengthened his belief in inventing nitroglycerin stabilizer. Therefore, Nobel visited California, USA, where nitroglycerin was used the most, and built a factory there, and began to devote himself to the improvement of nitroglycerin.
In this way, after arduous experiments and repeated failures, Nobel found that diatomite can be used to make nitroglycerin, because diatomite is a porous solid substance, so it can adsorb nitroglycerin. This time Nobel finally succeeded. The explosive he developed is not only powerful, but also very safe.
1868, Nobel and his father won the highest prize "Terez Prize" awarded by Swedish Academy of Science. Nobel, who likes to study hard, successfully manufactured colloidal explosives that can be used in water in 1875, and on this basis, developed a granular smokeless powder based on military industry. Therefore, Nobel has the reputation of "king of explosives".
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The explosives developed by Nobel are not only used in industrial production, but also used as weapons of war, which makes Nobel very sad. He didn't expect that the research results of his life would bring such a deep disaster to mankind.
In order to reassure him, Nobel donated most of his property as a Nobel Prize fund to reward people who made great contributions to mankind. There are five Nobel Prizes, namely Peace Prize, Literature Prize, Physics Prize, Chemistry Prize and Physiology and Medicine Prize. Later, the Nobel Prize became the highest international honor award.
Nobel proved with a bumpy life that although the road to success is full of thorns, as long as you have a firm belief, you will eventually succeed; Nobel used his vanity-free life to tell us sincerely that wealth has no value. Only by firmly adhering to the ideal of benefiting mankind and making contributions to mankind will you gain the admiration of future generations.
The Nobel Prize was founded in 19 10, and is based on the Nobel legacy and part of it.
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