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CAPUT MORTUUM

Caput mortuum is Latin for a dead head. It was a fanciful term much used by the old chemists to denote the residuum of chemicals when all their volatile matters had escaped and hence, the term came to be used for anything from which all that rendered it valuable has been taken away.
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