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Artificial sweetener
Russian-born chemist Constantin Fahlberg gets credit for discovering saccharin, the first commercially available artificial sweetener, back in 1879. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Fahlberg was investigating the oxidation of a chemical called o-toluenesulfonamide when he noticed that when he would go home to eat, everything he ate tasted sweet. It was the chemical itself that was creating the sweetness, and he later gave it the easier-to-pronounce name “saccharin.”
Russian-born chemist Constantin Fahlberg gets credit for discovering saccharin, the first commercially available artificial sweetener, back in 1879. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Fahlberg was investigating the oxidation of a chemical called o-toluenesulfonamide when he noticed that when he would go home to eat, everything he ate tasted sweet. It was the chemical itself that was creating the sweetness, and he later gave it the easier-to-pronounce name “saccharin.”
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