Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
HABILITATION
Etymology
Noun
habilitation (countable and uncountable, plural habilitations)
Equipment; qualification.
An act of habilitating.
An academic qualification, prerequiring a PhD, required in order to gain tenure as a professor in some European universities; a thesis or dissertation presented to achieve the qualification.
(US) The act of supplying money to work a mine.
Source: Wiktionary
Ha*bil"i*ta"tion, n. Etym: [LL. habilitatio: cf. F. habilitation.]
Definition: Equipment; qualification. [Obs.] Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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