Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "Greek Fire - When you get that burning feeling all over..." video.
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I couldn't help but notice your use of "pine resin" as a "thickening agent". I grew up in the southern United States. And if we were ever in the woods & had gotten cold & had a strong desire to build a fire we would find what we called "lighter knot". Basically, when/where a pine tree has died, most of the turpentine from the tree will end up in the stump of the tree before it falls over. Sometimes not easy to find cuz these stumps will be almost ground level. However, the concentrated build up of turpentine in one of these stumps makes it very, very easy to start a fire, even in the rain. Most times they were relatively easy to pull them out of the ground & the concentrated turpentine as a solid is white. So you could usually see where there was a lot of the turpentine & just setting a lit match to that would get you a raging fire rather quickly. But you were using "pine resin" so I'm sort of ignorant to exactly what you mean by that considering it seemed to be a solid. I was thinking that maybe trying turpentine may work as well or better cuz I could definitely see that sticking & burning. But I'm not sure as to if turpentine would have been available & logically, of course, given the time period & location you would have to use products available in quantity in that location and time period. Idk. I'm neither a scholar of either. But I also felt it was rather telling that trying to use such a weapon with a syphon would be rather dangerous for those using it if the wind was not in your favor. However, throwing the hand grenades, if there were enough of them, could still be deployed & give your army an advantage. Because being burned is a terrifying reality & when people are burning they scream loudly & those 2 things would be highly demoralizing & terrifying to an enemy.
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