Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
HELIOMETERS
Noun
heliometers
plural of heliometer
Source: Wiktionary
HELIOMETER
He`li*om"e*ter, n. Etym: [Helio- + -meter: cf. F. héliomètre.] (Astron.)
Definition: An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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