Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
MULTIVALENCE
polyvalence, polyvalency, multivalence, multivalency
(noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
multivalence (countable and uncountable, plural multivalences)
The quality of being multivalent.
Source: Wiktionary
Mul*tiv"a*lence, n. (Chem.)
Definition: Quality, state, or degree, of a multivalent element, atom, or radical.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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