Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
GOX
Noun
gox (countable and uncountable, plural goxes)
(rocketry) GOX, gaseous oxygen, as differentiated from LOX (liquid oxygen)
GOx, glucose oxidase
The alfaproteobacterid organism Gluconobacter oxydans.
Synonyms
(gaseous oxygen)
• O2(g)
• GO2
(Gluconobacter oxydans)
• GLUOX
Source: Wiktionary
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