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He used it against bonified Military targets then?

As I understand "Greek Fire", It had two military advantage.

1). It could be projected by placing it in shell, bombs, or other containers which did not require the user to expose himself unnecessarily.

2). It was difficult to put out. Especially with common matterials like water, which would in some cases caused the flames to expand.

I am not quite sure if the water caused this expanding effect because of the charactoristic behavior of Oil on water. Or that the Oxygen and Hydrogen in the water somehow became fuel for the fire.

I use to, in my young and stupid days, take an old paper eggs carton that held a dozen eggs. I would set the egg carton on the ground and fill the compartments with old motor oil. I would then set fire to the egg carton. Of course it would burn like an oil lamp wicking the oil through the paper carton. When the carton was burning well, (here is the stupid part) I would take a quart of water and throw it on to the burning carton. This sudden reaction would cause one huge boiling rolling Fireball.

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