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.
TRITIATE
Verb
tritiate (third-person singular simple present tritiates, present participle tritiating, simple past and past participle tritiated)
(chemistry, transitive) To modify (a compound) by replacing some of its normal hydrogen (protium) with the heavy isotope tritium
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SOAK
(noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid); “a good soak put life back in the wagon”
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