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 "id": "musk-ketone-1894",
 "type": "HistoricalEvent",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "A",
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 "title": "Musk ketone discovered by accident, 1894",
 "date": {
  "value": "1894",
  "precision": "year",
  "year": 1894,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "ISO-2",
  "where": "docs/sources/ISO-2-stepanyuk-kirschning-2019.md:46",
  "quote": "Key enabling milestones were the musk ketone accidentally discovered in 1894, being an important compound not derived directly from nature.",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "kind": "synthesis",
 "what": {
  "value": "Musk ketone, a nitro musk not derived directly from nature, is discovered by accident.",
  "evidence": "documented",
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  "where": "docs/sources/ISO-2-stepanyuk-kirschning-2019.md:46",
  "quote": "Key enabling milestones were the musk ketone accidentally discovered in 1894, being an important compound not derived directly from nature.",
  "confidence": "A"
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  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no place on record for this event"
 },
 "actors": [],
 "disagreements": [],
 "molecules": [
  "musk-ketone"
 ],
 "materials": [],
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 "regulations": [],
 "accords": [],
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 "links": {
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 "copy": {
  "lede": "A review dates the accidental discovery of musk ketone to 1894.",
  "body": [
   "It was a musk made in the laboratory rather than taken from an animal."
  ]
 }
}