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Byzantine ship using Greek fire in the late 11th century... Byzantine ship using Greek fire in the late 11th century... Byzantine ship using Greek fire in the late 11th century... incendiary weapon of a different composition and not Greek fire based on the original formula... Greek fire was difficult to extinguish and could burn on water... Greek fire was really invented by chemists in Constantinople who had inherited the discoveries of the... suggesting that Greek fire may have been a... Greek fire was largely responsible for many Byzantine military victories and partly the reason the Eastern Roman... Greek fire was very hard to control... That the Greek fire was a liquid... Greek fire should not be considered an invention that solved all the maritime problems of the Byzantine... to which Greek fire added an effective weapon for the Byzantines... Greek fire was also used on land... Greek fire could also be used in... The earliest reference to a weapon similar to Greek fire being used in... Greek Fire and the Defense of Byzantium...

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