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.
GRAPHITIC
Etymology
Adjective
graphitic
Of, relating to, resembling, or having the structure of graphite.
Source: Wiktionary
Gra*phit"ic, a.
Definition: Pertaining to, containing, derived from, or resembling, graphite. Graphitic acid (Chem.), an organic acid, so called because obtained by the oxidation of graphite; -- usually called mellitic acid.
– Graphitic carbon, in iron or steel, that portion of the carbon which is present as graphite. Raymond.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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