Who invented gunpowder?
No one knows who first mixed the chemicals that make up gunpowder. All that is known is that gunpowder was undoubtedly first made in China, and the earliest mention of the formula – a combination of potassium nitrate (salt petre), sulphur and carbon – is to be found in a Chinese book that was written in A.D 1044
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Monday, March 3, 2008
Who invented gunpowder?
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