An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
GNEISS
gneiss
(noun) a laminated metamorphic rock similar to granite
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gneiss (usually uncountable, plural gneisses)
(geology) A common and widely-distributed metamorphic rock having bands or veins, but not schistose.
Anagrams
• essing, sengis, singes
Source: Wiktionary
Gneiss, n. Etym: [G.] (Geol.)
Definition: A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic or syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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