decaffeination

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Large glass jars filled with fair trade coffee beans line a wooden counter in a coffee shop, with a sign reading Bean There Fair Trade Coffee on the wall behind.

Diagram of the caffeine molecule, showing colored spheres representing carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen atoms, and methyl groups, with labeled bonds and a key for each element.

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Large glass jars filled with fair trade coffee beans line a wooden counter in a coffee shop, with a sign reading Bean There Fair Trade Coffee on the wall behind.

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Jars of fair-trade coffee beans on the counter of a coffee shop in Johannesburg,...

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Diagram of the caffeine molecule, showing colored spheres representing carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen atoms, and methyl groups, with labeled bonds and a key for each element.

The caffeine molecule

The chemical structure of caffeine.

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