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.
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
Source: Wiktionary
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CHANCY
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