Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
TRANSMUTABLE
convertible, transformable, translatable, transmutable
(adjective) capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy; “is lead really transmutable into gold?”; “ideas translatable into reality”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
transmutable (not comparable)
able to be transmuted
Source: Wiktionary
Trans*mut"a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. transmutable. See Transmute.]
Definition: Capable of being transmuted or changed into a different substance, or into into something of a different form a nature; transformable. The fluids and solids of an animal body are easily transmutable into one another. Arbuthnot.
– Trans*mut"a*ble*ness, n.
– Trans*mut"a*bly, adv.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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