Afternoon! MORE ACID! MAKE ALL THE ACID! PERFECT ALL ACID MANUFACTURING PROCESSES! FASTER REACTIONS! HIGHER YIELDS! HIGHER PURITY! ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE WITH PRESTIDIGITATION or maybe it would be if Keltham could actually solve or remember any quantum-mechanical equations for anything besides the hydrogen-atom equation. But Keltham is nonetheless making SLOW PROGRESS and has only doused himself with boiling acid again TWICE.
Keltham is trying to explain what he's doing to some of the watching researchers while he does it, but it's not going great, what with nobody except him actually understanding any chemistry let alone physics, and Keltham not really having time to slow down and explain. Which, yes, makes Keltham the only experimenter, and no that's not particularly a fast way of getting work done. But Keltham thinks he'll have an easier time explaining, once Keltham himself has some idea of what can be done with Prestidigitation really.
...Actually in retrospect they could have run a policy prediction market on how fast research would go, depending on whether Keltham tried to explain chemistry first so others could help, or tried to do things himself to understand where he needed help and what to explain? That was something the other researchers might've had an opinion about. Oh well.