Tapputi
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Tapputi is in the history of chemistry considered to be the world’s first chemist, a perfume-maker mentioned in a cuneiform tablet from the second millennium BC in Mesopotamia.[1] She used flowers, oil, and calamus along with cyperus, myrrh, and balsam. She added water then distilled and filtered several times.[2] This is also the oldest referenced still. She also was an overseer at a palace, and worked with a researcher named Ninu.
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- ^ Strathern, Paul (2000). Mendeleyev's Dream - The Quest For the Elements. New York: Berkley Books. ISBN 0425184676.
- ^ Levey, Martin (1973). Early Arabic Pharmacology: An Introduction Based on Ancient and Medeval Sources. Brill Archive. pp. 9. ISBN 9004037969.
