Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
DICHROMATE
bichromate, dichromate
(noun) a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
dichromate (plural dichromates)
(chemistry) any salt of dichromic acid; in solution the orange dichromate anion (Cr2O72-) is in equilibrium with the yellow chromate anion (CrO42-), the relative amount of each ion depending on the pH; they are both very powerful oxidizing agents
Source: Wiktionary
Di*chro"mate, n. (Chem.)
Definition: A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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