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Food additives
- SaltPeople living in present-day Romania boiled spring water to extract salts around 6000 BC. This process created briquetage, a method used by Neolithic people…
- FlourArchaeologists have found evidence of humans making cereal flour over 14,000 years ago. This discovery comes from Shubayqa 1, a Natufian hunter-gatherer site…
- MagnesiumAging stars forge magnesium by adding three helium nuclei to a carbon nucleus. When these massive stars explode as supernovas, they eject the element into…