An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SHADOWGRAPH
radiogram, radiograph, shadowgraph, skiagraph, skiagram
(noun) a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
shadowgraph (plural shadowgraphs)
A shadow-picture; a radiograph or X-ray photograph; a sciagram.
(physics) An optical technique of visualizing patterns of fluid flow by using differences in refractive index
Verb
shadowgraph (third-person singular simple present shadowgraphs, present participle shadowgraphing, simple past and past participle shadowgraphed)
(transitive) To outline in a shadow-picture on a screen.
(photography) To take a picture by means of X-ray, radium, or similar source of actinic radiation.
Source: Wiktionary
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