In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
BECQUEREL
Becquerel, Henri Becquerel, Antoine Henri Becquerel
(noun) French physicist who discovered that rays emitted by uranium salts affect photographic plates (1852-1908)
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Noun
becquerel (plural becquerels)
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of radioactive activity; the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second. Symbol: Bq
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(noun) the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals
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