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.
DEPHLOGISTICATE
Etymology
Verb
dephlogisticate (third-person singular simple present dephlogisticates, present participle dephlogisticating, simple past and past participle dephlogisticated)
To take away the phlogiston, i.e. ability to burn, which is now understood to be chemically impossible
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