Plants with toxic alkaloids - University of Washington

Greek Fire
Roasting limestone CaCO3 produces a crumbling residue of CaO calcium oxide
or quicklime. When this is sprinkled with water it will turn into Ca hydroxide
and develop heat with the potentil of selfignition. The combination of
quicklime & sulfur was creating self-ignitng materials
Incendiary coating of arrows = were
made from resins, tar, petroleum & sulfur.
Smokes: Chinese have deviced burning mixtures with sulfur and arsenic that
were used to kill large infestations of insects. They also developed smoke ball
for warfare. One successful receipt was to mix pine resin, charcoal and sulfur
with powdered root of Aconitum monkshood, croton beans (cathartic
purgative from euphorb fam.), hallucinogenic hemp,
Alum is a bisulfate of potassium and aluminum. known to the ancient
sailors to fire-proof the wood of their ships against attacks with napalm in
the form of Greek fire. A means to fire-proof materials or to extinguish fires
was vinegar (at that time sour vine). When sour wine was poured over hot
rocks of limestone or marble in a siege, these rocks would disintegrate.