Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
FERRITIN
ferritin
(noun) a protein containing 20% iron that is found in the intestines and liver and spleen; it is one of the chief forms in which iron is stored in the body
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ferritin (plural ferritins)
(protein) Any of a family of iron-carrying globular protein complexes consisting of 24 protein subunits.
Source: Wiktionary
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TRUNCATION
(noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)
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