“Ashido you can change the properties of your acid right?” She slowly nods. “Ok well I want to see what some of those properties are. I want one bottle with low acidity and high viscosity, low acidity low viscosity, and one with middle acidity and high viscosity.” Ashido started to get to work while I labeled each bottle after she was done. After she filled all of the vials, I told everyone else they could get to training while I work through this.
Both of the guys took off fighting each other with their new movement ideas, and Hagakure stayed close, but started to sparkle in places as she was testing. I quickly looked at all the tape Sero was leaving behind. I looked at Momo who was still around, probably as intrigued at this liquid as I was. “I’ll help you clean up after them.” She giggled a little. “Thank you, I’ll have to take you up on that.” I then directed my attention back to the bottle in my hand. I looked at the low acidity and high viscosity first. I put my finger in the bottle. It felt cold and the viscosity was even higher than syrup. “Is this as high viscosity as you can get it?” “I can make it a bit more, but I’ve never felt the need.”
I nodded while trying to put electricity through it. “Highly resistant to electricity.” I took out my finger from the bottle and wiped the excess liquid off on my pants. I then took out the lighter and was about to heat up the test tube before I stopped. “Momo, can you make a thermometer?” She nodded as she handed me one she already made. I chuckled a little. “You really are a genius.” She smiled knowingly as I put the thermometer in the bottle of goo. I turned on the lighter underneath the bottle and waited.
After a minute or two I stopped with the lighter and took out the thermometer. The temperature was warm, but not really hot. “Lower resistance to heat though. High enough current may start to boil this off.” I wrote down my findings in my notebook while Ashido was asking Momo what was happening.
“Denki is finding out the properties of your quirk besides the acidity and viscosity. He is also checking to make sure those properties don’t change with you changing either of the variables.” Ashido didn’t really understand so I explained it to her in an easier to understand fashion.
“I want to see if your goo has anything else special about it.” She looked like she understood all of what we were doing now. “Oh… Why couldn’t you just tell me like that?” She looked over to Momo while I started snickering. I got out the Ph strips and put one in the less viscous fluid with low acidity. The strip turned the color of a 6 on the Ph scale. I then did the same thing as I did with the last bottle. I put in electricity, but I noticed it was much more conductive. I looked at Momo who was in as much shock as I was.
I wrote it down, then moved on to the heat testing. I stuck the thermometer in the bottle, and heated it with a lighter again. I did this for a few minutes before looking at the thermometer. I was shocked to see that the goo was cold, as if I never tried to heat it in the first place. “They reverse based on viscosity. I don’t understand… How does viscosity change the way electricity, and heat travel across it?” I was really confused, and so was Momo. Ashido was getting worried looking at our reactions. “Is everything ok? Is something wrong? I totally don’t want to die!”
I laughed a little at her panicking. “No Ashido, there is nothing wrong it’s just your goo is amazing… Here watch.” I poured some of the goo onto my hand then stuck the lighter underneath it. I couldn’t feel anything along the lines of pain, but thinking about it later I wasn’t really the best test subject for that experiment. I was stopped when Momo struck the lighter out of my hand. “Hey! Must you test it like that? We only tested it once before! The thermometer could have been wrong! My goodness you really must be watched at all times. Like supervising a child.”
I gave a weak laugh while she was feeling my hand for any burns. “I think Kyoka is rubbing off on you.” She just shook her head while finishing her check up. I looked back at Ashido who looked surprised at all that just happened. “Ok one last test on your acidic mix. If acidity has nothing to do with how it affects the goo like we’ve seen so far I think we can stop experimenting.” Ashido was still in a confused state.
As I was testing the Ph of the middle acidity Ashido could do. Ashido spoke up about her question. “Why do you call both Yaoyorozu and Jiro by their first names?” I took out the Ph strip to see it was the color of 2 or 1 on the scale. “Oh my…” I leaked out, still staring at the strip.
Both girls were looking at me while I was still fascinated by the sheer acidity of it. “Momo this stuff is highly acidic. I’m getting a 1 or 2, I think we need goggles and gloves.” I spoke with a hint of fear in my voice. Momo was surprised as well. As she was making the protective things I looked at Ashido. “Are you sure this is mid-way in terms of acidity you can make?” She was looking a little frightened at my tone and the look of seriousness in my voice. “Yes, but this is what I normally use to burn things. If I go too acidic it starts to hurt me.”
I nodded while I was putting on goggles and gloves. “Ok I can’t really test electricity right now, even I’m not that stupid.” I then heard Kyoka yell from the training room. “Are you sure?” I looked up to see her, with a slight scowl and smile on my face. I shook my head as I took out the lighter and thermometer. “How good is Kyoka’s hearing?” Momo giggled behind me as I was working again. Ashido realized her question was never answered as I accidentally derailed the conversation.
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If your going to possibly be working with acid and running a current and attempting to heat it you may want to include a venting system for what ever is let off from the air.
A possible answer for the getting cold is that its an endothermic reaction meaning it is using the energy from the heat to enact some change rather than producing heat outwards like an exothermic which releases energy from breaking bonds. Considering her acid is that strong and the difference between thickening and thin i'd guess that heating the substance will thicken it and release steam and gas until it becomes thickened like the other substance with a more stable structure. So it may be that if she can produce a form of Base but it will be extreamly congealed like jello and may be why she feels pain when she lets out stronger acid. It may also be that her body is using the base as a structure for her skin to help neutralize the acid she comes into contact with before it causes any harm to her body.
Ah i should also say these are just my thoughts on the process. I'm a bio physics major and I've always liked the idea of how powers work XD So if you take anything from it or not theres no pressure.
Damn, science geniuses here I see. I'm not really good with these things. I suck at science *cries*, so I don't really understand much.
Question though, what does it really mean with the gas there? With all the cold and that heating and all?
Without getting that into details there are simpler things on the experience that denki should do.
Things like testing the acidity BEFORE and after(plenty of reasons why) but the most instinctive is in case the heat also degrades and neutralizes the solution or simply how the pH is affected by temperature .
Point is, he should not get too hung up in making it that scientific since it might be troublesome later and tiring for him. I.e If you wanted to explain the electricity and magnetism that he gets it would get difficult too.
That being said we don't want to give some Chem-Lab homework for Calvin. I think to help when something smells fishy would be enough
@TwigTree Oh yeah of course i didn't mean for it to be judging or forcing how it could work in real life. I just find the idea behind powers in stories fascinating and thinking about how to approach them if i were given the chance. A lot of the times i over think it to the point that it would likely lose a lot of its luster since it would require chem-lab homework and a long winded explanation most i'm sure wouldn't enjoy reading about.
Its why i added that last phrase in my comment i Don't really expect anything to come of what i said from it so much as giving my thoughts on it.
@Tori_the_Birb Not really a genius XD just happened to study some chemistry for my major and was a TA for some early chem classes at college. Short barebones chem lesson time i'm skipping a few explanations on things here so bare with me people that know what they are.
Endothermic reactions are when a chemicals reaction is using energy in order to accomplish something so it needs to use the heat (which is a form of energy) to achieve that and either create new bonds or excite preexisting bonds to change states like solid to liquid so it takes energy from outside to in making it feel cold.
Exothermic reactions are when energy is being released from a chemical process. For example fire, its breaking down the bonds of what its burning moving energy and releasing heat. The energy goes from in to out which makes it feel hotter.
Now for some more complicated sciency stuff using that.
The reason i mentioned gasses is a couple reasons primarily because of heat exciting molecules turning them into gases, making them bounce around so much that they fly off. Water is also a common diluter for a lot of substances. This is because it can attach itself to free floating H+ and OH- that make up acids and bases. it passes around the H+ from acids or itself around to try to make everything stable, making the effect of either much weaker.
When you heat it up though all those free floating H+ and OH- from in between the complex compound that makes up the meat of the acid starts turning into steam leaving behind what ever is left. It also takes off with a lot of the H+ that would be part of the acid too since they are already unstable, thats part of why they are an acid, they want to let go and the heat helps them do that. This is because in chemistry the concept of adding heat is shown by adding 02 or two oxygen. So now you have all these free floating H and a bunch more O's getting added making even more water that will turn into steam.
So now you have many H and O leaving so its going to be less runny and become more solid because now all thats left are large more complex substances rather than a malleable water between the substance. Since its cold rather than hot we know its endothermic so there are two possibilities.
First, new bonds could be forming rather than only breaking or it would be hot like fire. In which case its breaking then reforming more bonds part of that energy into more stable forms (because chemicals always want to be stable.) Which is possible I don't recall the specific but I feel like i recall several chemical reactions that can get like this.
Second, It could also transitioning from one state of matter to another like an ice cube to water. During the entire process the ice is always below 0 C even if heat is acting on it. There may be less and less ice but the parts that are Ice never get above that until they are gone. This could mean that the gases released are the water from our ice cube example and the substance is the ice. That it will stay that same temperature until it all turns into gas. Realistically theres always some other byproducts that get stuck at the bottom from the random exchange of a chemical though so its not ALL turning into a gas if this were the case.
The issue with gasses being released is when heat is being added other gases might be made other than just steam. What ever compound your burning depending on how stable it is might lose a couple of other molecules that bind and become a gas that rise up, possibly being inhaled. These can be very toxic like Chlorine gas unless precautions are taken. Acids already being unstable to begin with so they are even more likely to turn into some other type of gas.
Now for the sake of this story and any other work of fiction take it with a grain of salt. The concept of powers is that they go against the rules. Its what makes them fun that they don't follow conventional rules. So testing the limits to which it breaks them is the most interesting thing to me to think about conceptually.
@Efail no worries, i also did not mean to sound like i was reprimanding you , if anything i enjoy your POV in your comment and i am a chem geek myself so its nice that im not the only one overthinking .
Just making sure Calvin does not feel bad or forced to check stuff instead of focusing on enjoying writing and his family holiday (and providing more chapters....MOAR MOAR MOAR~)