In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
FERMION
fermion
(noun) any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fermion (plural fermions)
(particle physics, Standard Model) Any elementary or composite particle that has half-integer spin and thus obeys Fermi–Dirac statistics and the Pauli exclusion principle (equivalently, a particle for which the wavefunction of any system of identical such particles changes sign whenever two are swapped); a baryon, a lepton or a quark;
(slightly more loosely) any such particle or any composite particle composed of fermions.
Coordinate terms
• boson (particle with integer spin)
Source: Wiktionary
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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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