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.
HARMOTOME
Etymology
Noun
harmotome (countable and uncountable, plural harmotomes)
(mineral) A rare zeolite, a hydrated barium silicate that forms vitreous white monoclinic crystals.
Source: Wiktionary
Har"mo*tome, n. Etym: [Gr. harmotome.] (Min.)
Definition: A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone.
Note: A related mineral, called lime harmotome, and Phillipsite, contains lime in place of baryta. Dana.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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