The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
CARNOTITE
carnotite
(noun) a yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium
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Etymology
Noun
carnotite (countable and uncountable, plural carnotites)
(mineral) A yellow mineral that is a potassium uranyl vanadate that is a major ore of uranium, with the chemical formula K2(UO2)2(VO4)2·3H2O.
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• certation
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