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.
AUTOIONIZATION
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Noun
autoionization (countable and uncountable, plural autoionizations)
A process by which atoms or molecules spontaneously transition from an electrically neutral state to a lower-energy ionized state
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