The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
METASOMATISM
Noun
metasomatism (countable and uncountable, plural metasomatisms)
(geology) The process by which the bulk chemical composition of a rock is changed by the introduction of components from an external source, especially by a hydrothermal fluid.
Source: Wiktionary
Met`a*so"ma*tism, n. Etym: [Pref. meta- + Gr. (Geol.)
Definition: An alteration in a mineral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization.
– Met`a*so*mat"ic, a.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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