The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
ALIZARIN
alizarin, alizarine
(noun) an orange-red crystalline compound used in making red pigments and in dyeing
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
alizarin (countable and uncountable, plural alizarins)
(organic compound) A red substance, 1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone, extracted from madder root and used as a dye.
Source: Wiktionary
A*liz"a*rin, n. Etym: [F. alizarine, fr. alizari.] (Chem.)
Definition: A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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