Video: History of inventing gunpowder

Gunpowder is one of the four great inventions of ancient China. Chinese gunpowder means "fire medicine". Black gunpowder consists of three basic ingredients: sulfur, phosphorus and charcoal. This three-type mixture is very strong. Therefore, people call this mixture "fire medicine" (fiery medicine).

Gunpowder is one of the four great inventions of ancient China.

Chinese chemists accidentally invented gunpowder when looking for ways to make drugs that help immortal humans in the 9th century.