Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
SPICULES
Noun
spicules
plural of spicule
Source: Wiktionary
SPICULE
Spic"ule, n. Etym: [L. spiculum a little point, a dart.]
1. A minute, slender granule, or point.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: Same as Spicula.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any small calcareous or siliceous body found in the tissues of various invertebrate animals, especially in sponges and in most Alcyonaria.
Note: Spicules vary exceedingly in size and shape, and some of those found in siliceous sponges are very complex in structure and elegant in form. They are of great use in classification. Description of the Illustration: a Acerate; b Tricurvate, or Bowshaped; c d Hamate; e Broomshaped; f Scepterellate; g Spinispirulate; h Inequi-anchorate; i Sexradiate; j A Trichite Sheaf; k Six-rayed Capitate; l Rosette of Esperia; m Equi- anchorate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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