Editing Triboluminescence (section)

===Early scientific reports===
The first recorded observation is attributed to English scholar [[Francis Bacon]] when he recorded in his 1620 ''[[Novum Organum]]'' that "It is well known that all [[sugar]], whether candied or plain, if it be hard, will sparkle when broken or scraped in the dark."<ref>Bacon, Francis. [http://web.lemoyne.edu/~GIUNTA/bacon.html ''Novum Organum''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060503183317/http://web.lemoyne.edu/%7Egiunta/bacon.html |date=2006-05-03 }}</ref> The scientist [[Robert Boyle]] also reported on some of his work on triboluminescence in 1663.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Boyle |first=Robert |date=1663 |title=A COPY OF THE LETTER That Mr. Boyle wrote to Sir Robert Morray, to accompany the Observations touch∣ing the Shining Diamond. |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A28975.0001.001/1:8?rgn=div1;view=fulltext |website=Experiments and considerations touching colours first occasionally written, among some other essays to a friend, and now suffer'd to come abroad as the beginning of an experimental history of colours |pages=391–411}}</ref> In 1675. Astronomer [[Jean Picard|Jean-Felix Picard]] observed that his [[barometer]] was glowing in the dark as he carried it. His barometer consisted of a glass tube that was partially filled with mercury. The empty space above the mercury would glow whenever the mercury slid down the glass tube.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=(Staff) |title=Experience faire à l'Observatoire sur la Barometre simple touchant un nouveau Phenomene qu'on y a découvert |journal=Journal des Sçavans (Paris edition) |date=1676 |pages=112–113 |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k56527v/f113.item.langEN |trans-title=Experiment done at the [Paris] observatory on a simple barometer concerning a new phenomenon that was discovered there |language=fr}}</ref>

In the late 1790s, [[sugar]] production began to produce more refined sugar crystals. These crystals were formed into a large solid cone for transport and sale. This solid sugar cone had to be broken into usable chunks using a [[sugar nips]] device. People began to notice that tiny bursts of light were visible as sugar was "nipped" in low light, an established example of triboluminescence.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wick |first=Frances G. |date=1940 |title=Triboluminescence of Sugar |url=https://opg.optica.org/josa/abstract.cfm?uri=josa-30-7-302 |journal=JOSA |language=en |volume=30 |issue=7 |pages=302–306 |doi=10.1364/JOSA.30.000302|bibcode=1940JOSA...30..302W }}</ref>