Overview
We often hear the word "strategic goods" in theatres of war, which sound very professional and high-profile, but it's quite the same thing as the food and grass used in ancient wars, which, according to the encyclopedia, is, in general terms, something that is essential to the survival of the nation, to the defence war, including industrial manufactured goods, agricultural food, and mineral products, such as weapons, cannery foods and oil, in the field of war, but have you ever heard of plants as strategic goods? Today, we are here to introduce this plant, known as ricin, which is classified by the united states as a strategic commodity。
About the ricin
Friends of the south may have to see much more of this plant, known as the grasshoppers, the so-called so-called assortments, and so on, which are one-year or many-year-old herbs, mainly in better water-hot locations, such as the southern part of china and the tropics of some countries. It looks like it's similar to a shrub. It's usually green, and some of it is red. The fruit of the ricin is strange, it's a bit like a thorny peach, but the head is much smaller, and when it's taken off, it's a seed of the ricin。
Although it has a long history in china, it is not an indigenous species, it was originally transmitted from india to china, because it was strange, and people at the time, though not aware of its value, were quick to notice the new species. In ancient times, its main function was to extract oil, because its fruit contained a high amount of oil that could replace the usual peanuts and oilseeds。
But this is wrong, because the plant itself is toxic, and the oil extracted from it can lead to diarrhoea and even more severe consequences, which are slowly discovered, so that it is slowly being used as a laxative。
With the development of industrial science and technology, there has also been considerable progress in plant application research, and new uses of ricin have slowly been discovered by scientists. Oil extracted from ricin cannot be eaten, but there are many other uses of grease in industrially produced areas, such as lubrication。
We know that there was a problem with many of the lubricants in the market before, namely, that the ice point was high in a low-temperature operating environment, and that it was intended to be used as a lubricating machine, and that even the lubricating oil itself was frozen, while the ice point of the liquefie oil was higher than the normal lubricant, i. E., in most low-temperature environments, it could continue to flow in liquid form, thus achieving the effect of the lubrication, and was thus applied on a large scale。
Outside the winter, for example, our motor vehicles are often frozen for lubricating, and at this point, using liquefies for lubrication will normally solve the problem. In fact, you've probably figured out why ricin is classified as strategic。
Strategic goods
In recent times, in addition to the vehicles that transport soldiers and weapons, aircraft, tanks and all kinds of equipment that use internal combustion engines must be used for lubricating oil. Imagine the frequency of war in the world from world war i to world war ii, it should be impossible to speculate about the need for lubricating oil。
But at a time when war is so urgent that it requires ricin oil, its cultivation has been severely affected by war, production has been reduced, and how can war be ensured that limited ricin oil is used for war? The only way to do this is to list it as strategic goods, as americans do, because it would make it possible to properly invest human and financial resources to scale up production, and to ensure that output gives priority to the military, as well as another consideration for strategic goods, which would be to limit the export of ricin in order to guarantee domestic supply, while cutting off the overseas markets of other countries and leaving them without the means to purchase ricin oil, thereby reducing the fighting power of each other’s troops on the battlefield。
Of course, with advances in technology, ricin oil has been replaced by other mineral oils of higher value, although it has not completely withdrawn from the stage of industrial production, and new results have been obtained from the in-depth study of ricin, in which plant research specialists have found ricin in the analysis of ricin。
This ingredient has been shown to be capable of producing a blended fuel together, and to be more efficient in combustion than the diesel fuel we use now, i. E., under the same quantity of use, the hybrid fuel produced by the ricin can provide more power to the car and is more environmentally friendly, and from a source it is a fully renewable resource, which is why the united states has classified it as a national secret。
Concluding remarks
Whether ricin is a substitute for fossil energy that we have used for centuries, there are some difficult issues that need to be resolved, such as the production of the ricin plant itself, the costs of complex harvesting and conversion, and the fact that such a low-yielding plant will not be able to meet global energy demand soon。
