Fireworks Gunpowder History(Ⅲ)

Early Chinese formula recorded in the 1044 about 60% of saltpeter,sulfur 30%,charcoal 10%,but the preparations including sesame fibred,bamboo fibred,arsenic,lead salt,oil and resin.Assumption is that organic material will need to carbonation. Lead and arsenic compounds may recommend another toxic fumes of a military nature.
While on the gunpowder and weapons in India and Muslim countries,to use some public relations work.for more than the British Ĵ ash project study on the authority of gunpowder,views,and Chinese origin.It may be from the 1225,gunpowder technology from China by the Indian National transmitted to the veil.Later.Gunpowder,the Arabs and then send to Spain.Spread to Europe by the mid-16th century.It was suggested that Roger Bacon discovered gunpowder by the Arab book translation.
In later times,the Arabs called saltpeter"Chinese Snow"and the Persians called the"Chinese salt"
There is no doubt that the original gunpowder burn well and produces a considerable amount of natural gas.

Fireworks Gunpowder History(Ⅱ)

The so-called "black powder a resplendent pearl, in chinese civilization to the three parts even known from the earliest times.
Charcoal was already used at the Bronze Age in China and recognized as fuel for the reduction of metal ores.
Sulfur was recorded in the 6th century BC and in other documents it was regarded as remarkable for its ability to dissolve metals like gold , silver ,copper and iron. It is also featured in medicine.
There is considerable evidence of the existence and knowledge of Saltpeter . Once again, its reactivity with metals its use in medicine in the elixir of life recipe established its importance in these times.
It has always been stated that the origins of black powder are Chinese and much of the evidence has been found in books printed in the west . We are happily in the position now to have more authentic evidence from a document forwarded by professor Fe n g Chang gen of the Beijing institute of the authors of the paper” The Origin and Development of Ancient Gunpowder” were Yang s h u o and Ding Jing(42).

Fireworks Gunpowder History(Ⅰ)

China consider that the properties of gunpowder were discovered during the period 475-221 BC with the rise of interest in alchemy and the urge to perfect the making of both gold and the elixir of life. han dynasty (about the 206年) alchemy increasingly popular, but the exact details of the origin is not clear, this is not the main the alchemists were looking for.

The 1st serious formulations for gunpowder as know it seem to stem from writings about AD808 when sulfur and charcoal have clearly entered the trials though the object was not necessarily to produce explosions so much as to subdue them. It was reported that mixtures of saltpeter, sulfur, raga and honey created fires which burnt hands, faces and houses. The addition of charcoal to hot mixtures of saltpeter and sulfur would certainly have been inflammatory!

The fourth of the search for the elusive also takes active. saltpeter remains the principal constituents, but the experiment may have some water on the way, a mixture of saltpeter or resin and the pig. it is found that, under certain conditions will be a mix of explosives.