What Are The Ingredients in Greek Fire or somtheing similar to it and how do you make it?

Answer 1

You mean the historical Greek fire....? The formula has been lost over the centuries. It is believed to have contained sulfur and pitch and perhaps other ingredients.

We can do better now with thermite and napalm, and a lot better with tactical nukes. I wouldn't bother with Greek fire if I had the original formula, except to give it to a museum and be considered a historian/ benefactor.

Answer 2

Theophanes records that Greek fire was invented c. 670 in Constantinople by Kallinikos (Callinicus), an architect from Heliopolis in Syria; Partington thinks it likely that "Greek fire was really invented by the chemists in Constantinople who had inherited the discoveries of the Alexandrian chemical school[.]"[1] Many accounts note that the fires it caused couldn't be put out by pouring water on the flames—on the contrary, the water served to spread them, suggesting a complex base-chemistry. Therefore, 'Greek fire' must be a flammable liquid that can float on water - it may have been petrol, naphtha, or another low-density liquid hydrocarbon, as oil was known to eastern chemists long before its use and applications became increasingly widespread, from about the mid-1800s onwards.

Answer 3

You mean the sticky substance that was sling shot to the enemy camp during the Byzantine time warfare? Apparently they used some sort of grease/oil mixed with light debris, but the exact formula has been lost to history. Too bad, it was a very effective weapon in routing enemies inside a fort.