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(-287 BCE), and Pliny the Elder (23/24-79 CE). However, this did not immediately lead to the isolation of alcohol, even despite the development of more advanced distillation techniques in second- and third-century Roman Egypt. An important recognition, first found in one of the writings attributed to Jabir ibn Hayyan (ninth century CE), was that by adding salt to boiling wine,

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