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Jabir ibn Hayyan gave us gibberish

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When you want to keep your recipes for transmuting matter completely secret, you invent a vocabulary so baffling that nobody can read it. Jabir wrote texts so dense and intentionally confusing that his name literally birthed the English word 'gibberish.' He gatekept chemistry so hard he altered the dictionary.

Jabir ibn Hayyan gave us gibberish
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