Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
REGULIZE
Etymology
Verb
regulize (third-person singular simple present regulizes, present participle regulizing, simple past and past participle regulized)
To make or become regular; regularize.
(statistics) To manipulate data so that it is on a comparable scale; normalize.
To make regulations about.
(by extension) To control.
To bring into accord with regulations.
(chemistry, archaic) To reduce to pure metal.
Source: Wiktionary
Reg"u*lize (-lz), v. t. (Old Chem.)
Definition: To reduce to regulus; to separate, as a metal from extraneous matter; as, to regulize antimony. [Archaic]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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