Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
HYALINES
Noun
hyalines
plural of hyaline
Source: Wiktionary
HYALINE
Hy"a*line, a. Etym: [L. hyalinus, Gr. hyalin.]
Definition: Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal. "Hyaline spaces." Carpenter.
Hy"a*line, n.
1. A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere. "The clear hyaline, the glassy sea." Milton. Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline. Mrs. Browning.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleous originates.
3. (Physiol. Chem.)
Definition: The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation. Gamgee.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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