This ignorance of ours clearly proves that the Byzantines managed to keep the secret from their friends and enemies equally effectively. Despite numerous attempts to analyze it deeply enough and describe in full detail, the weapon has remained mysterious in certain aspects, and especially in such as the precise chemical composition of the incendiary mixture used by the Byzantines (which was the Greek fire proper) as well as the details of the equipment used for discharging it. Voluminous literature has been composed on the subject of Greek fire. The fire would cling to flesh and was impossible to extinguish with water. It was one of the most terrifying weapons ever made. “ Greek fire” was a flaming mixture fired from the ships of the Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Empire from the 7th century.
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