Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
heme, haem, hematin, haemitin, protoheme
(noun) a complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hematin (countable and uncountable, plural hematins)
(biochemistry) Hemoglobin with iron in ferric state.
(biochemistry) Hemin.
• Heitman, Manthei, Thamien, Thieman
Source: Wiktionary
Hem"a*tin, n. Etym: [Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood.]
1. Hematoxylin.
2. (Physiol. Chem.)
Definition: A bluish black, amorphous substance containing iron and obtained from blood. It exists the red blood corpuscles united with globulin, and the form of hemoglobin or oxyhemoglobin gives to the blood its red color.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 May 2025
(adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; “a critical reading”; “a critical dissertation”; “a critical analysis of Melville’s writings”
Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.