In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
GELIGNITE
gelignite, gelly
(noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
gelignite (countable and uncountable, plural gelignites)
An explosive mixture of nitroglycerine and nitrate absorbed onto a base of wood pulp.
Source: Wiktionary
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