2021-12-12 20:00:06
The invention of gunpowder in China
Three ingredients are needed to make gunpowder: saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal. There has always been coal in China. Sulfur is available in China. Today about 70% of the world's sulfur production comes from China.
But there is no saltpeter in China at all: the nearest deposit was on the island of Ceylon.
Maybe Chinese merchants were buying it? No, they couldn't. We know that nitrate was never used in everyday life before the end of the 19th century. And the existence of Chinese merchants is questionable. There is not a single country in the world whose annals mention the arrival of merchants from China in this country.
Only saltpeter and sulfur from the entire Mendeleev Table can be components of black powder, all other fast-acting substances are explosive, and if used, any cannon will be blown to pieces.
So it turns out that the Chinese physically could not invent gunpowder, they did not have the necessary ingredient.
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