Редактирование: Guide to Research and Development (раздел)

== Experiments ==
In order to unlock some technology nodes, you must perform experiments. Other technology nodes receive discounts to their costs. 

Experiments can be anything from Human Dissection (a surgery you must perform next to a surgery computer), to Reactionless Explosions (which requires you to detonate a bomb), to analysing upgraded machines or glass toilets. 
===Low Grade Material Scanning Experiment===

This is an experiment usually done at the start of the round in order to get a discount on Industrial Engineering.

It requires you to grab an Experi-Scanner, accept the experiment by clicking it (you will see the blue tab around the experiment's name turn green), and then click on the listed objects to scan them. In many cases, you will need to build them first. 

Usually, this will be something easy to build, such as a chair, made out of an easily obtainable material like iron or glass.  

You should grab a stack of the required material, and use it to open a construction menu from which you will be able to build chairs, toilets, and the like. 

In the case of tables, you may use your screwdriver on an existing table to remove its cover, and then click the table frame with the desired material. 
===Human and Non-human Dissection===

You may perform these experiments by putting a dead body (human or non-human, respectively) on an operating table next to an operating computer. There's one in the Robotics subdepartment, and more in Medbay.

It is common to ask the roboticist if he will perform this experiment, as some of the nodes that benefit robotics are locked behind it. 

For specific instructions, see the [[Surgery#Dissection|Guide to Surgery]].

===Reactionless Explosives===

''Also see: [[Guide to Ordnance]]''

An experiment performed in Toxins (also known as the Ordnance Lab). 

It requires you to detonate a TTV explosive made from a tank of superheated ("furiously hot") plasma and a cold gas such as nitrogen.

A thermomachine is able to cool the nitrogen to the required temperature, but, in order to superheat the plasma, you will require an upgraded thermomachine.

Alternatively, you can use the burn chamber to generate hot plasma, and scrub it out into a canister.

Once you have a tank of cold nitrogen and another of furiously hot plasma, attach both to a TTV (tank transfer valve), as well as an activation switch (such as a remote signaller or a timer).

Place your bomb inside the mass driver (if you chose a timer, set the timer - it is recommended to increase it past the default 10 seconds), set the auto-launch to 00:00 and hit "Start" (make sure you are not standing on the mass driver or you will be spaced). If you chose to use a signaller instead of a timer, wait a few seconds for your bomb to arrive and then send the signal.

Once your bomb explodes, the tachyon-doppler array will output a message. You must now publish the research paper.

===BZ Gas Shells===
'''The robust way'''[[File:BZ Experiment Guide.png|thumb|Quick guide to BZ Gas]]
''Also see: [[Guide to Ordnance]]''

This experiment is also performed in Toxins. Producing BZ requires you to mix Plasma and Nitrous Oxide (N2O) and cool the mix down. This is usually performed in the Ordnance Lab's Freezer Chamber.

Note that you must both open the valve and turn on the injector via Ordnance Chamber Control. 

Be sure to create a bottleneck (either by limiting the injection or by not maxing out one of the gas mixers' pressure), as BZ forms faster in low pressure.

In order to actually cool the gas, you will need to set up a cooling circuit. One is already in place, you may complete it by attaching a canister with a gas, such as nitrogen (which will make it easier to do Reactionless Explosives as you will already have cold nitrogen, which you can remove from the circuit when needed), or carbon dioxide. Remember to turn on the thermomachine and set it to the lowest temperature.

Once the BZ is formed, you may extract it by wrenching an empty canister into the output port and setting the air alarm to scrub BZ (and only BZ) in an expanded radius. Don't forget to turn it on.

'''The unrobust way'''

Alternatively, you can ignore everything said above and just order a canister of BZ from Cargo.

'''Once you have the BZ'''

Once you have a canister with over 100 mol of BZ, wrench it down on the gas compressor's input port. Grab an empty O2 tank (scrub one at the air scrubber or print one at the lathe) and put it inside the gas compressor.

Turn the gas compressor on. If you brought enough BZ, the tank will fill until it either starts leaking (in which case you should let it empty itself until around 10 kPa or less and eject the tank) or it explodes (in which case the experiment will instantly conclude).

The tank compressor will output a message when it is done. You must now publish the research paper.

===Publishing research papers===

Once either the gas compressor or the tachyon-doppler array has recorded an experiment, you must insert a disk in the machine and save the record to the disk.

You must then remove the disk and insert it into a console (PDAs also work). Go to file management, and download the experiment file onto the console. Remove the disk from the console.

Download NTFrontier (the paper program) into the console (usually contained inside a purple disk near the ordnance lab), and open the program. 

You should be able to select the experiment you completed. You must select options for all the drop-down boxes. You may fill out the other fields, or not. They will be automatically filled if you simply hit 'Publish'.