In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DELOCALIZATION
Etymology
Noun
delocalization (countable and uncountable, plural delocalizations)
the process of delocalizing or the fact of being delocalized
(chemistry) the phenomenon in which bonding electrons of some molecules serve to bind several atoms instead of just two; it is observed in metals and in aromatic and conjugated organic compounds
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HABIT
(noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition; “owls have nocturnal habits”; “she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair”; “long use had hardened him to it”
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