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.
VULCANISATION
vulcanization, vulcanisation
(noun) process of treating rubber or rubberlike materials with sulphur at great heat to improve elasticity and strength or to harden them
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Noun
vulcanisation (countable and uncountable, plural vulcanisations)
Non-Oxford British standard spelling of vulcanization.
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CATECHISM
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