Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
BICE
Proper noun
Bice (plural Bices)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bice is the 5117th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6841 individuals. Bice is most common among White (93.01%) individuals.
Etymology
Noun
bice (countable and uncountable, plural bices)
A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.
A cobalt blue pigment.
Source: Wiktionary
Bice, Bise, n. Etym: [F. bis, akin to It. bigio light gray, tawny.] (Paint.)
Definition: A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice. Green bice is prepared from the blue, by adding yellow orpiment, or by grinding down the green carbonate of copper. Cooley. Brande & C.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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NEGLECT
(verb) leave undone or leave out; “How could I miss that typo?”; “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”
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