Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
FUSELS
FUSEL
Fu"sel, n., Fu"sel oil. Etym: [G. fusel bad liquor.] (Chem.)
Definition: A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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