Leviod

Leviod is a mineral that generates lift if the surrounding pressure is less than the normal atmospheric pressure. With that property it catapulted the steamage literally into the air.

Deposits

Raw leviod is a soft mineral due to the metalic impurities. It can be found deep below the surface in or below igneous rock or in small quantities in the roots of zirconic zypresses. The most is found at the top of Dourune.

Refinement

To purify the mineral, the raw leviod get crushed by big press. Through the impurities the raw leviod can get deformed, but the stone breaks into small pieces. These get seperated from the impure leviod by sifting the remains. Then the leviod gets heated in a smelter.

The Smelter

That smelter is a cubiod made out of clay and can be seperated in three sections. The bottom section is the heating array. There the {coal} burns and generates the required energy to melt the leviod. It is also connected to a vertical pipe in the center that goes to the top of the furnace.
The section above the heating array is the melting chamber. There the leviod melts. To extract it the chamber ceiling is diconical, which creates two highest points. At the location of them a smaller vertical pipe goes like the coal pipe to the top of the furnace.
The last section is a heated water tank to cool the leviod slowly.
That smelter melts the metalic impurities and after they seperated from the leviod clump, the air is pumped out. This not only enshures the complete seperation but also decreases the melting point of the leviod that it melts into a viscous liquid rather than destroying the structure of the crystal. The liquid get funeled into the zylindricel pipes at the ceiling of the melting chamber. There the pure leviod is slowly cooled over the cause of a day to create a uniform crystal structure. Then the ends of the cylindric leviod rods are cut.

Type

Mineral

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