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I was just reading a recent acquisition, The Magician's Arsenal by Lee Scott and it just taught me how to make ninja flash bombs. It's all actually simple gunpowder, flash paper and a simple detonator in the form of ball bearings and popcaps and aluminum foil.
Then it taught me how to make flash powder (aluminum powder and potassium dichromate) and flash paper (soak paper in nitric acid and sulfuric acid - leave out to dry)
That is so not definitely how I thought it would be made.
Then I saw in my head how that worked in Naruto. I can see pretty much every ninja in Naruto land being well-versed in practical chemistry - I can just imagine young Naruto experimenting with iron oxide and aluminum powder - oh yeah.
Then you throw chemistry in with all that chakra mumbo jumbo. My head spins.

and you've got Naruto, Alchemist.
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