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.
HYDRACID
Etymology
Noun
hydracid (plural hydracids)
(chemistry) An acid that does not contain any oxygen as opposed to an oxyacid; they are all binary compounds of hydrogen and a halogen or pseudohalogen.
Source: Wiktionary
Hy*drac"id, n. Etym: [Hydr- + acid: cf. F. hydracide.] (Chem.)
Definition: An acid containing hydrogen; -- sometimes applied to distinguish acids like hydrochloric, hydrofluoric, and the like, which contain no oxygen, from the oxygen acids or oxacids. See Acid.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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