The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
XYLIDINE
Noun
xylidine (plural xylidines)
(organic compound) Any of six isomeric aromatic amines (CH3)2C6H3NH2 derived from the xylenes
Source: Wiktionary
Xy"li*dine, n. (Chem.)
Definition: Any one of six metameric hydrocarbons, (CH3)2.C6H3.NH2, resembling aniline, and related to xylene. They are liquids, or easily fusible crystalline substances, of which three are derived from metaxylene, two from orthoxylene, and one from paraxylene. They are called the amido xylenes.
Note: The xylidine of commerce, used in making certain dyes, consists chiefly of the derivatives of paraxylene and metaxylene.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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