An article published in Harvard Menās Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
BRIMSTONE
brimstone, native sulfur, native sulphur
(noun) an old name for sulfur
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
brimstone (countable and uncountable, plural brimstones)
The sulfur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
(obsolete) Sulfur.
(obsolete) A whore.
(archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.
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• strombine
Source: Wiktionary
Brim"stone, n. Etym: [OE. brimston, bremston, bernston, brenston; cf. Icel. brennistein. See Burn, v. t., and Stone.]
Definition: Sulphur; See Sulphur.
Brim"stone, a.
Definition: Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches. From his brimstone bed at break of day A-walking the devil has gone. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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