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The Day the Medicine Exploded

By: Liz Huyck
Narrated by: Dan Schoeneberg
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In ancient China, an alchemist mixed an exploding medicine and accidentally invented gunpowder. Learn about the development of gunpowder and other explosives, like nitroglycerin and dynamite, in this fun feature.

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