Which poisonous element can be either grey, yellow or black and combines with sulphur as realgar?
Realgar a contact explosive known as "red explosive" for some types of torpedoes and other novelty exploding fireworks branded as 'cracker balls', as well in the cores of some types of crackling stars. Realgar is toxic. The ancient Greeks, who called it "sandaracha", understood it is poisonous. It was used to poison rats in medieval Spain and in 16th-century England. It is still sometimes used to kill weeds, insects, and rodents, even though more effective arsenic-based agents are available. The Chinese name for realgar is "xionghuang" 雄黃, literally 'masculine yellow', as opposed to orpiment which was 'feminine yellow'. Its toxicity was
Realgar wine fish. A doctor among them is said to have cast realgar into the river, drawing out an aquatic dragon which the boatmen promptly killed. Realgar wine can be bought ready-made, but it is often prepared from homemade yellow wine and realgar mineral powder bought from drugstores, markets, or street vendors. A typical recipe calls for 50 to 100 grams of realgar powder to be added to one litre of home-made wine and left to stand at room temperature for several hours. Although practiced for many centuries, the drinking of realgar wine and the painting of children with realgar have come