Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
FERROCYANIDE
ferrocyanide
(noun) salt of ferrocyanic acid usually obtained by a reaction of a cyanide with iron sulphate
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Etymology
Noun
ferrocyanide (plural ferrocyanides)
(inorganic chemistry) The complex ion Fe(CN)64-; any salt containing this ion; they are used in making blue pigments
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Fer`ro*cy"a*nide ( or ; 104), n. Etym: [Ferro- + cyanide.] (Chem.)
Definition: One of a series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron and some other base. Potassium ferrocyanide (Chem.), yellow prussiate of potash; a tough, yellow, crystalline salt, K4(CN)6Fe, the starting point in the manufacture of almost all cyanogen compounds, and the basis of the ferric ferrocyanate, prussian blue. It is obtained by strongly heating together potash, scrap iron, and animal matter containing nitrogen, as horn, leather, blood, etc., in iron pots.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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