1811 by Michel Eugène Chevreul to denote what was previously called "sweet basic principle of fat" by its discoverer Carl Wilhelm Scheele. It was borrowed into English ca. 1838 and within the 20th c. displaced by 1872 term glycerol showcasing an alcohols' suffix -ol.In agriculture, the abnormal use of ammonium phosphate can cause eutrophication, a… Read More