In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TARTRAZINE
Noun
tartrazine (countable and uncountable, plural tartrazines)
(chemistry) A lemon-yellow azo dye used as a food colouring.
Synonyms
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Source: Wiktionary
Tar"tra*zine, n. Etym: [Tartaric + hydrazine.] (Chem.)
Definition: An artificial dyestuff obtained as an orange-yellow powder, and regarded as a phenyl hydrazine derivative of tartaric and sulphonic acids.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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