LIA Research and Development Department

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Sender: Sanjo Jiraki
Rank: Director of R&D
Location: CLASSIFIED
Encryption: 3DS
Recipient: Liberty Intelligence Agency R&D
Topic:Phase Two Experimentation

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Greetings

Today marks day 2 of experimentation. I slept on the idea of having a combustion engine in space when I realized that the experiment itself is wrong. Combustion doesn't occur in space! I made a quick edit to today's goals. Goals 1,2, and 4 will be maintained, and 3 will be dropped for today, although I did do some tests on environmental housing using the Engine components and Helium-3. Starting with task 1: Analyze the gas. From the previous day's culture of Alien Organisms, I was able to contain a greenish-orange gas from the dish. I separated the gas into 3 different housings for 3 different tests. Test 1 was a burn test. A spark was introduced to the chamber, and it looked like the the inside of the chamber was both burning and expanding at the same time, with a brilliant emerald flame. This immediately told me it must be some sort of methane-like gas. That means it has to have at least 1 carbon atom surrounded by 2 or more atoms of hydrogen. I could not smell anything from the smell test. The color test was obvious (greenish-orange color). The gas reminded me of fuming hydrochloric acid, but that would have just killed the organisms. In fairness though, waste product of certain species tends to be deadly to said species. The issue with it being hydrochloric acid is that the byproduct would be carbon tetrachloride, which is a liquid (a highly cancerous one at that). Considering the flame test, though, I will conclude that the gas must be within the -ane suffix, reasons are above. For the chemical properties section, I cooled down the gas so that it condensed, and then set it alight. It had a higher combustion than when it was a gas, but its green-orange coloration had diluted a bit. The color of the fire was a lighter green than the fire from the gas. It appeared to boil at around 20-25 degrees Celsius. Gas production was increased with the amount of ethanol present in each petri dish, which suggested that ethanol was a waste product of the microorganisms. This would make sense, considering -ane chemicals required carbon and hydrogen coming from the -anol chemicals (ethanol). The oxygen remaining most likely did not react to the gas, as if it did, it would have released carbon dioxide/monoxide and water vapor. Those are my findings for today. 'Till next time, agents!

Goals for tomorrow:

• Find a way to implement the gas into a plasma engine
  
• Create a better containment solution for the organisms and the gas
  
• Test H-3 and its affects on the gas/organisms
  

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Visual Aids

Example molecule of -ane chemical: Propane

Example molecule of -anol chemical: Propanol

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Good day.

Director of R&D Sanjo Jiraki

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