Keltham seems appropriately impressed with Lady Avaricia's work!  If he's upset or even, in fact, noticing Avaricia being incredibly dismissive and condescending towards everyone else here including him, it doesn't show!  At all!

Much progress on acid synthesis is made today!  Not to the point where they can complete a full production cycle on using sulfuric acid to make twice as much more sulfuric acid!  But they're not going to be able to do that until Keltham can improvise something with linear reaction to temperature, that doesn't break down at relatively higher temperatures, calibrate it off one of those incredibly scary and dangerous 'mercury thermometers' that was sent to him, and figure out what temperature is... converting units to obvious landmarks... higher than the melting point of water by 450% of the difference between the melting point of water and the boiling point of water.

Maybe there's something he can do with the thermal expansion of a metal, instead of the expansion of liquid mercury... that requires him to have something to use as a measuring stick, though, and the measuring stick needs to not also be expanding... well, he could use the difference in expansion between different metals, maybe, you could hope for that to be linear... but you'd need a pretty fine-grained view of the differences, going from melting-water to boiling-water will only expand a metal by on the order of 0.1%, if he's got figures roughly right, and using another metal as the reference point would diminish that even further...

Does Lady Avaricia have any ideas for that?  Also any ideas for identifying element-23?

If they had a way to measure the target temperature and element-23 - and possibly some way to distill Element-8 'oxygen', though maybe regular air works for that, or works if you purify it, though all the spells Keltham has read about so far seem unfortunately aimed towards producing a sphere of air clear of say burning sulfur and not so much purifying air that you can then use to burn sulfur, but maybe a sufficiently extreme cold spell or Ice-elemental spell would also let them liquify air and distill out the oxygen - then they could maybe even complete a full production cycle on sulfuric acid / 'oil of vitriol'!  If all goes well, they'll even be able to produce the more expensive high-purity high-concentration 'distilled oil of vitriol' that people usually buy from Hell or the City of Brass!

'Lady Avaricia' is her most preferred form of address, check?  The name on her nametag is complicated.

Keltham seems appropriately impressed with Lady Avaricia's work!  If he's upset or even, in fact, noticing Avaricia being incredibly dismissive and condescending towards everyone else here including him, it doesn't show!  At all!

Much progress on acid synthesis is made today!  Not to the point where they can complete a full production cycle on using sulfuric acid to make twice as much more sulfuric acid!  But they're not going to be able to do that until Keltham can improvise something with linear reaction to temperature, that doesn't break down at relatively higher temperatures, calibrate it off one of those incredibly scary and dangerous 'mercury thermometers' that was sent to him, and figure out what temperature is... converting units to obvious landmarks... higher than the melting point of water by 450% of the difference between the melting point of water and the boiling point of water.

Maybe there's something he can do with the thermal expansion of a metal, instead of the expansion of liquid mercury... that requires him to have something to use as a measuring stick, though, and the measuring stick needs to not also be expanding... well, he could use the difference in expansion between different metals, maybe, you could hope for that to be linear... but you'd need a pretty fine-grained view of the differences, going from melting-water to boiling-water will only expand a metal by on the order of 0.1%, if he's got figures roughly right, and using another metal as the reference point would diminish that even further...

Does Lady Avaricia have any ideas for that?  Also any ideas for identifying element-23?

If they had a way to measure the target temperature and element-23 - and possibly some way to distill Element-8 'oxygen', though maybe regular air works for that, Keltham isn't sure, or regular air works if you purify it - though all the spells Keltham has read about so far seem unfortunately aimed towards producing a sphere of air, clear of say burning sulfur, and not so much purifying air that you can then use to burn sulfur - but maybe you can pump air out of the purified sphere and it stays pure - or maybe a sufficiently extreme cold spell or Ice-elemental spell would let them liquify air and distill out the oxygen - then they could maybe even complete a full production cycle on sulfuric acid / 'oil of vitriol'!  If all goes well, they'll even be able to produce the more expensive high-purity high-concentration 'distilled oil of vitriol' that people usually buy from Hell or the City of Brass!

'Lady Avaricia' is her most preferred form of address, check?  The name on her nametag is complicated.

Keltham seems appropriately impressed with Lady Avaricia's work!  If he's upset or even, in fact, noticing Avaricia being incredibly dismissive and condescending towards everyone else here including him, it doesn't show!  At all!

Much progress on acid synthesis is made today!  Not to the point where they can complete a full production cycle on using sulfuric acid to make twice as much more sulfuric acid!  But they're not going to be able to do that until Keltham can improvise something with linear reaction to temperature, that doesn't break down at relatively higher temperatures, calibrate it off one of those incredibly scary and dangerous 'mercury thermometers' that was sent to him, and figure out what temperature is... converting units to obvious landmarks... higher than the melting point of water by 450% of the difference between the melting point of water and the boiling point of water.

Maybe there's something he can do with the thermal expansion of a metal, instead of the expansion of liquid mercury... that requires him to have something to use as a measuring stick, though, and the measuring stick needs to not also be expanding... well, he could use the difference in expansion between different metals, maybe, you could hope for that to be linear... but you'd need a pretty fine-grained view of the differences, going from melting-water to boiling-water will only expand a metal by on the order of 0.1%, if he's got figures roughly right, and using another metal as the reference point would diminish that even further...

Does Lady Avaricia have any ideas for that?  Also any ideas for identifying element-23?

If they had a way to measure the target temperature and element-23 - and possibly some way to distill Element-8 'oxygen', though maybe regular air works for that, Keltham isn't sure, or regular air works if you purify it - though all the spells Keltham has read about so far seem unfortunately aimed towards producing a sphere of air, clear of say burning sulfur, and not so much purifying air that you can then use to burn sulfur - but maybe you can pump air out of the purified sphere and it stays pure - or maybe a sufficiently extreme cold spell or Ice-elemental spell would let them liquify air and distill out the oxygen - then they could maybe even complete a full production cycle on sulfuric acid / 'oil of vitriol'!  If all goes well, they'll even be able to produce the more expensive high-purity high-concentration 'distilled oil of vitriol' that people usually buy from Hell or the City of Brass!

'Lady Avaricia' is her most preferred form of address, check?  The name on her nametag is complicated.