Talk:Calcium phosphide

Latest comment: 1 year ago by CSJordan in topic Greek Fire

Greek Fire edit

There is a nice description of how Calcium Phosphide is made in the Greek Fire article. Can that be placed here instead?

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The description of Greek Fire and calcium phosphide is cited for The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History by McEvedy. I went through the work of borrowing this book (1992) from the Internet Archive precisely because I wanted to read more about this (and the claim that calcium phosphide can be made by boiling bones in urine in a closed vessel). However, "Greek Fire" appears only once in the entire book, and the words "urine" and "calcium" don't appear at all. CSJordan (talk) 01:45, 28 December 2022 (UTC)Reply