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Text: Bread Clip Knowledge
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«——【Preamble】】 ——»
The mainland has been an agricultural country since ancient times, and arable land production is very important to us.
The plants that live on the mainland are even more diverse, especially in rural areas, where a variety of plants can be found everywhere on the roadside.
In the countryside, there used to be a kind of such plant, which can be seen everywhere in the countryside, and was once picked by rural children to play with.
Its appearance seems ordinary, but who would have thought that this plant is a highly poisonous plant, and even its toxin is no less than any kind of highly venomous snake, which can be fatal with only 0.2g.
But no one would have thought that this kind of plant, which has a highly poisonous body, will be used by the United States as a strategic material for a long time.
What is so special about this highly poisonous plant, and if it is really poisonous, why is it still used as a strategic stockpile?
«——【Deadly things that used to be seen everywhere】——»
In the last century, many children living in the countryside would often pick a special fruit to play with, and they also made a smooth-mouthed slip, a plant called castor.
Castor beans can be seen in many places in the countryside, such as in the wilderness and fields, and even in the corners of the walls near the home, or on both sides of the road, and their vitality is very tenacious, almost unaffected by the environment.
Castor also has a long history in the mainland, according to relevant historical records, it has a history of more than 1,300 years in the mainland.
For many old people living in rural areas, castor is a plant that is very familiar, many old people will tell their children that castor is poisonous, don't eat it, in ancient times people knew about castor this special poisonous plant
According to historical records, the ancients would squeeze the castor seeds into oil and apply them to weapons, which could cause secondary damage to the enemy.
According to current research and testing, castor beans are more than dozens of times more toxic than poisonous snakes, and only 0.2g of castor oil is needed to kill an adult, which is a huge danger to people.
0.2g can threaten an adult, let alone a child, and castor, a very toxic plant, has not yet developed effective antibodies.
And why is this kind of castor, which is deeply poisonous and poses a great threat to people, to be used as a strategic material as a reserve in the United States, and is there anything special about it?
«——[The United States is a strategic material?·]——»
Although castor beans are highly toxic, it is a highly applied plant, especially after World War II, it was found that castor beans are not only very toxic, but also have medicinal, textile and chemical machinery uses.
However, at that time, due to the small production of castor, it was grown in the wild and not artificially planted, so the demand was too great, and castor was in short supply in the market.
This makes many people wonder why castor can play an important role in chemical strategy, in fact, it is still derived from castor, which has a very high oil content.
What many people don't know is that castor beans, as a plant, have a very high oil content like soybeans and peanuts, and the oil content of castor can reach more than 60%.
The castor oil squeezed from castor is a very good choice for the industry because it has a variety of advantages.
For example, at the same time, the stability is good, its viscosity and density are very high, so in the chemical industry, especially in machinery, it can be used as additives for lubricating oil, as well as some special chemical raw materials, and it has a high use in machinery.
Because castor oil has a very special feature, that is, it has a certain degree of flammability, but it is different from other oils in that it is not flammable, even at high temperatures, it will not easily burn or deteriorate.
It will not solidify in extremely cold areas, which is very important for engineering operations in some high-altitude areas and chemical research.
Not only that, castor oil is also believed by many scientists to be a kind of green oil that can be used as a renewable alternative to oil, and it is also known as "oil that grows in the land".
Oil is an indispensable natural resource for the planet today, but this natural resource is non-renewable.
Therefore, with the decreasing oil resources, finding a new energy source that can replace oil, or finding a new energy source that can be regenerated, has become a very urgent problem now.
And many scientists, after a lot of research, have found that castor oil can be used to replace oil to some extent.
After all, its application rate is too high, and now many natural lubricants and petroleum peripheral products can be replaced with castor oil.
It is no exaggeration to say that through continuous research on castor oil, people have found that this oil from nature has infinite potential.
Nowadays, many automobiles, airplanes, some large machinery, and high-altitude drilling platforms are mainly lubricants made of castor.
After all, the performance of castor oil is very stable, and its quality is superior to that of ordinary petroleum products.
But now, the current global castor planting area is too small, and the vast majority of castor beans are a wild state, so in the United States, almost every year a large number of castor beans are imported from all over the world, after all, its application value is too high.
In fact, on a global scale, in addition to the United States, the mainland, Brazil, India and other countries now list castor as a strategic material.
But even so, the resources of castor beans are very scarce, which also makes many people curious, since castor beans are such an important application, why can't the mainland plant castor beans in large quantities?
In fact, as early as the 70s of the last century, the mainland had ordered the people of the whole country to plant castor beans in large quantities. Farmers in many parts of the mainland also use the land used to grow castor beans on the land that originally planted grain, but castor beans have a very special feature, that is, they have a long growth cycle.
If it is in the wild state, no one pays too much attention to the yield of castor beans, and if it is planted in large quantities, its yield will not increase at all.
And castor beans grown on the mainland. In some specific environments, the yield is not high and the quality is poor, so for many farmers, growing castor beans is not a very economical thing.
But later, with the continuous improvement of our castor technology planting, although it has become the world's second largest castor producer, its output and our demand still cannot keep up.
This has also led to the fact that the mainland has been importing a large number of castor beans from abroad, but at present, the mainland's scientists are also working hard to find this predicament.
After all, from the 70s to the present, after decades of development, the technology of planting castor beans in the mainland is getting higher and higher.
But it is undeniable that castor beans have become a strategic resource with its excellent application performance, although it is a highly toxic plant, but after all, it has both sides.