Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
AIRGLOW
Etymology
Noun
airglow (usually uncountable, plural airglows)
A faint illumination in the sky due to photochemical luminescence in the upper atmosphere, now rarely observed by earthbound humans without the assistance of instruments.
Synonyms
• (faint illumination due to photochemical luminescence): electroglow
Hyponyms
• (faint illumination due to photochemical luminescence): nightglow, dayglow ‎
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FISSILE
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
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