In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DECARBOXYLATE
decarboxylate
(verb) remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound)
decarboxylate
(verb) lose a carboxyl group; “the compound decarboxylated”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
decarboxylate (third-person singular simple present decarboxylates, present participle decarboxylating, simple past and past participle decarboxylated)
(organic chemistry) To remove one or more carboxyl groups from a molecule
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