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.
HELICITY
Noun
helicity (countable and uncountable, plural helicities)
The quality of being helical.
(physics, fluid mechanics, electrodynamics) Any of certain measures of the extent to which vortex lines (in fluid flow) or field lines (in a magnetic or electromagnetic field) kink and twist and/or link and coil around one another.
(physics, quantum mechanics) The quantized spin component of a moving particle along the direction of its motion.
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