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.
LIQUEFACTION
liquefaction
(noun) the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
liquefaction (countable and uncountable, plural liquefactions)
Process of being, or state of having been, made liquid (from either a solid or a gas)
The liquid or semiliquid that results from this process.
Source: Wiktionary
Liq`ue*fac"tion, n. Etym: [L. liquefactio: cf. F. liquéfaction. See Liquefy.]
1. The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.
2. The state of being liquid.
3. (Chem. Physics)
Definition: The act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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