Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
FRUCTOSE
fructose, fruit sugar, levulose, laevulose
(noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fructose (countable and uncountable, plural fructoses)
(carbohydrate) A monosaccharide ketose sugar, formula C6H12O6.
Synonyms
• fruit sugar
Hypernyms
• ketohexose
• hexose
• monosaccharide
Hyponyms
• lævulose, laevulose, levulose
• D-fructose
• L-fructose
• levoglucose
Anagrams
• Corfutes, forecuts
Source: Wiktionary
Fruc*tose", n. Etym: [L. fructus fruit.] (Chem.)
Definition: Fruit sugar; levulose. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FISSILE
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
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