Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
SEMIDIURNAL
Etymology
Adjective
semidiurnal (not comparable)
Twice daily (usually of tides).
Accomplished in half a day.
(entomology) Flying in twilight.
Source: Wiktionary
Sem`i*di*ur"nal, a.
1. Pertaining to, or accomplished in, half a day, or twelve hours; occurring twice every day.
2. Pertaining to, or traversed in, six hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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NECESSITATE
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