Patricia A. Matthew
 

To one part of refined sugar, finely powdered, add three parts of nitrous acid; expose this mixture in a glass alembic to a very gentle heat; a violent effervescence will ensue, and a phlogisticated nitrous acid will be condensed in the head of the alembic.

— Chemical Observations on Sugar (1788)
Edward Rigby

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