Mars Mission (5) : the Chemistry of Fuel

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    <text PosRelToPrev="NL" font_family_name="Arial" font_size="14" bold="False" italic="False" underscore="False" strikeout="False" foreClr_Red="0" foreClr_Green="0" foreClr_Blue="0">One of the most important things which you will have to do is learn how to use your chemists.  Chemists are the ones who take ore from the soil and gases from the atmosphere and convert them into useful materials which your engineers can use to build and repair equipment or converted into fuel to power your ships.  One of the great things your chemists can do is compress the atmospheric gases found outside the ship and store them in the ship's central chemical hold where the gases can be processed into useable resources or vented back out into the atmosphere.  </text>
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    <image PosRelToPrev="NL" address="Chemstry Lab Atmospheric Compression Chamber">your chemists can compress atmospheric gases into the ship's chemistry hold where they can later be processed into useful resources such as fuel</image>
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    <text PosRelToPrev="NL" font_family_name="Arial" font_size="14" bold="False" italic="False" underscore="True" strikeout="False" foreClr_Red="0" foreClr_Green="0" foreClr_Blue="0">Compressing Atmospheric Gases</text>
    <text PosRelToPrev="NL" font_family_name="Arial" font_size="14" bold="False" italic="False" underscore="False" strikeout="False" foreClr_Red="0" foreClr_Green="0" foreClr_Blue="0">Your atmospheric gas compressors require electricity and may drain the ship's power enough to prevent it from crashing so be certain to have a constant supply of electricity before you power up too many machines.  When you're ready, stand your chemist close to an atmospheric gas compressor which are usually located near a DC outlet(oval in shape) and a chemical pipeline(square shaped outlet) and select "Power Up Atmospheric Compressor" from your list of </text>
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    <text PosRelToPrev="NL" font_family_name="Arial" font_size="14" bold="False" italic="False" underscore="False" strikeout="False" foreClr_Red="0" foreClr_Green="0" foreClr_Blue="0">To see what is available in the atmosphere have a look at the ship's Science Console and move the mouse over the words "Atmospheric Components".  You can direct your pilot to move the ship higher or lower in order to find pockets of any given element but the higher you go the thinner the atmosphere is and the less gas you'll be compressing.</text>
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    <text PosRelToPrev="NL" font_family_name="Arial" font_size="14" bold="False" italic="False" underscore="True" strikeout="False" foreClr_Red="0" foreClr_Green="0" foreClr_Blue="0">Venting Gas</text>
    <text PosRelToPrev="NL" font_family_name="Arial" font_size="14" bold="False" italic="False" underscore="False" strikeout="False" foreClr_Red="0" foreClr_Green="0" foreClr_Blue="0">It may sound like a waste of energy to clear out your pipes as well as a waste of good natural resources, but since your ship's chemical hold can only contain so much gas you'll be limited in the amount you can keep and often times you'll find you're accumulating gases you simply don't need.  To vent gases from your ship's chemical hold and make room for more useful resources what you need to do is bring  your chemist to the nearest </text>
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    <text PosRelToPrev="right" font_family_name="Arial" font_size="14" bold="False" italic="False" underscore="False" strikeout="False" foreClr_Red="0" foreClr_Green="0" foreClr_Blue="0"> and select "Vent Gas" from the actions menu.  When you've made this choice a form will appear giving you a list of chemical resources in the hold which you can get rid of.  This list will be the same as the chemical-inventory which appears in your ship's Resource Console and when you've made your selection then your astronaut will be busily venting the gases which you've told them to.  This will require their full attention and will stop only when that gas has been completely purged from the ship's hold or when you choose the "Abort Venting &lt;gas&gt;" action from the action menu.</text>
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    <image PosRelToPrev="NL" address="Chemistry Lab Gas Venting Chamber">venting gases lets you purge the ship of unnecessary chemicals from its chemical hold</image>
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    <image PosRelToPrev="NL" address="Chemistry Lab Processing">using the lab equipment your chemists can convert gases and minerals into useful resources</image>
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    <text PosRelToPrev="NL" font_family_name="Arial" font_size="14" bold="False" italic="False" underscore="False" strikeout="False" foreClr_Red="0" foreClr_Green="0" foreClr_Blue="0">Always located beneath a hood a chemical reaction station is very useful because it lets your chemists derive any number of chemical equations and convert raw chemical resources into fuel or building material at will.  Your chemist's skill will determine how efficiently this is done as well as provide you with the information you need to build your chemical reactions.  The power of this is in the fact that there are an infinite number of possible chemical equations which your chemists can derive.  The better your chemist the easier it will be for you to invent the reaction you need but if your chemist is weak you may have to rely on your own knowledge of chemistry to muddle yourself through.  </text>
    <text PosRelToPrev="NL" font_family_name="Arial" font_size="14" bold="False" italic="False" underscore="False" strikeout="False" foreClr_Red="0" foreClr_Green="0" foreClr_Blue="0">Click on the left side of the Chemical Reaction Interface form to add an input reactant and click on the right side of the form to add an output reactant.  To remove a chemical reactant box from the interface press enter on its textbox while it is blank.  The objective is to write a balance chemical reaction such as </text>
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    <text PosRelToPrev="NL" font_family_name="Arial" font_size="14" bold="False" italic="False" underscore="False" strikeout="False" foreClr_Red="0" foreClr_Green="0" foreClr_Blue="0">which converts water into the two most common fuel components H2 and O2.  The amount of information the form provides depends on the astronaut's chemistry skill level.</text>
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