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Wei Boyang

Chinese writer

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Updated 2026-08-05

Wei Boyang was a Chinese writer and Taoist alchemist of the Eastern Han dynasty. He is the author of The Kinship of the Three, and is noted as the first person to have documented something like the chemical composition of gunpowder in 142 AD. As someone or him, only mixed the chemical compound of Sulphur and Saltpetre.

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