Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
BACKBURN
Etymology
Noun
backburn (plural backburns)
A controlled fire, lit in the path of a wildfire, in order to deprive it of combustible material.
Verb
backburn (third-person singular simple present backburns, present participle backburning, simple past and past participle backburned)
To light a fire for this reason.
Source: Wiktionary
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SUFFOCATION
(noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); “asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture”
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