In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
TRITIUM
tritium
(noun) a radioactive isotope of hydrogen; atoms of tritium have three times the mass of ordinary hydrogen atoms
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tritium (plural tritiums)
(isotope) A radioactive isotope of the element hydrogen (symbol T or 31H) having one proton and two neutrons.
An atom of this isotope.
Synonyms
• T (chemical symbol), hydrogen-3
Hypernyms
• hydrogen
Coordinate terms
• (isotopes of hydrogen): protium, deuterium, quadrium
Anagrams
• ittrium
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