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Edward Adam

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Edward Adam was a French chemist who, beginning as a student at Montpellier in 1800, invented various still modifications to improve chemical rectification,[1][2][3][4] upon which the industrialization of the manufacture of liquor has since been based.[5]

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References

  1. ^ Payen, Anselme (1878). Benjamin Horatio Paul (ed.). Industrial chemistry, a manual based upon Payen's 'Précis de chimie industrielle'. pp. 890.
  2. ^ A Restauranteurs Eye View of Vodka
  3. ^ Food and Feed Technology. Vol. 1. John Wiley & Sons. 2007. p. 142. ISBN 9780470174487.
  4. ^ Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology: Bearing materials to carbon. Wiley. 1992. p. 154. ISBN 9780471526728.
  5. ^ "Lasche's Magazine for the Practical Distiller: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Practical and Scientific Information for the Distiller". 2 (XIX). Milwaukee Brewing Academy. 1904: 325–327. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)