Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
YERSIN
Yersin, Alexandre Yersin, Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin
(noun) French bacteriologist born in Switzerland; was a student of Pasteur; discovered the plague bacillus (1863-1943)
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RECREANT
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
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