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| May 22, 2010 at 8:34 pm #2046 | |
 LPH |
Did you know the first chemist was a woman? Yes, Tapputi distilled perfumes during the second millennium BC in Mesopotamia. |
| May 24, 2010 at 3:48 pm #2047 | |
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LPH |
Wooow! heck yeah! thats whats up! |
| June 17, 2011 at 12:52 am #2048 | |
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LPH |
The first known chemist was a woman. A Mesopotamian cuneiform tablet from the second millenium B.C. describes Tapputi, a perfumer and palace overseer who distilled the essences of flowers and other aromatic materials, filtered them, added water and returned them to the still several times until she got just what she wanted. This is also the first known reference to the process of distillation and the first recorded still.. |
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