The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
COKING
Verb
coking
present participle of coke
Noun
coking (uncountable)
The manufacture of coke via the destructive distillation of coal
Source: Wiktionary
COKE
Coke, n. Etym: [Perh. akin to cake, n.]
Definition: Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where [Written also coak.] Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens.
Coke, v. t.
Definition: To convert into coke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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