Middle Eastern drinks later became popular in medieval Europe, where the word "syrup" was derived from Arabic.[63] Sine quadrant: A type of quadrant used by medieval Arabic astronomers, it was described by Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī in 9th century Baghdad.[64] Sulfuric acid: Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (854–925) is credited with being the first to produce sulfuric acid.[40][41] Scimitar: The curved sword or "scimitar" was widespread throughout the Middle East from at least the Ottoman period, with early examples dating to Abbasid era (9th century) Khurasan.[65] Sugar mill: Sugar mills first appeared in the medieval Islamic world.[66] They were first driven by watermills, and then windmills from the 9th and 10th centuries in what are today Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.[67] Syringe: The Iraqi/Egyptian surgeon Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili invented a syringe in the 9th century using a hollow glass tube, providing suction to remove cataracts from patients' eyes.[68] Systemic algebraic solution and completing the square: Al-Khwarizmi's popularizing treatise on algebra (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing, c.