Sulphuric Acid

                 The most important industrial chemical is sulphuric acid. This chemical was discovered about 1300, by someone who may have been a Spaniard. In order that his writings be given credence, he wrote of his discoveries under the name of Geber, who was an Arabic Alchemist who lived five centuries before. He was entirely too successful, for his real name is known. The greatest of the medieval alchemist is known only as the "False Geber".