Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
SINTER
sinter
(verb) cause (ores or powdery metals) to become a coherent mass by heating without melting
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sinter (plural sinters)
(geology) An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.
A mass formed by sintering.
A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace.
Verb
sinter (third-person singular simple present sinters, present participle sintering, simple past and past participle sintered)
To compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass.
Anagrams
• Insert, Stiner, Strine, Tiners, estrin, inerts, insert, inters, niters, nitres, terins, triens, trines
Source: Wiktionary
Sin"ter, n. Etym: [G. Cf. Cinder.] (Min.)
Definition: Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals. Calcareous sinter, a loose banded variety of calcite formed by deposition from lime-bearing waters; calcareous tufa; travertine.
– Ceraunian sinter, fulgurite.
– Siliceous sinter, a light cellular or fibrous opal; especially, geyserite (see Geyserite). It has often a pearly luster, and is then called pearl sinter.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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