Because cacao would not grow in the dry central Mexican highlands and had to be imported, chocolate was an important luxury good throughout the Aztec empire, and cocoa beans were often used as currency.

Because it does not contain any cocoa solids, white chocolate does not contain any theobromine, meaning it can be consumed by animals.

Because Dutch process cocoa has a neutral pH and is not acidic like natural cocoa, it cannot be used in recipes that use baking soda as the leavening agent, which relies on the acidity of the cocoa to activate it.

Because the Carib people resisted working as laborers to build and maintain the sugar and cocoa plantations which the French began to develop in the Caribbean, in 1636 King Louis XIII proclaimed La Traite des Noirs.

Because most chocolate chips are designed to retain their shape when baking, they contain less cocoa butter than baking chocolate.

Because an alpha particle is the same as a helium-4 nucleus, which has mass number 4 and atomic number 2, this can also be written as:

Because of their relatively large mass, + 2 electric charge and relatively low velocity, alpha particles are very likely to interact with other atoms and lose their energy, so their forward motion is effectively stopped within a few centimeters of air.

Because of its low density and atomic mass, beryllium is relatively transparent to X-rays and other forms of ionizing radiation ; therefore, it is the most common window material for X-ray equipment and in particle physics experiments.

Because the FLRW metric assumes a uniform distribution of mass and energy, it applies to our Universe only on large scales — local concentrations of matter such as our galaxy are gravitationally bound and as such do not experience the large-scale expansion of space.

Because mass actions operate outside the detailed procedures laid out for class actions, they can pose special difficulties for both plaintiffs, defendants, and the court.

Because of helium's relatively low molar ( atomic ) mass, its thermal conductivity, specific heat, and sound speed in the gas phase are all greater than any other gas except hydrogen.

Because of its lower atomic mass of about 3. 00 atomic mass units, helium-3 has some physical properties different from those of from helium-4, with a mass of about 4. 00 atomic mass units.

Because fusion yields about 1 % of the mass of the nuclear fuel as released energy, it is energetically more favorable than fission, which releases only about 0. 1 % of the fuel's mass-energy.

Because he explicitly both rejected Leninist vanguardism and criticised spontaneism ...( for ) Cornelius Castoriadis the emancipation of the mass of people was the task of those people ; however, the socialist thinker could not simply fold his or her arms.

Because of the large surface area to volume ratio of MEMS, surface effects such as electrostatics and wetting dominate over volume effects such as inertia or thermal mass.

Because a mole of molecules may contain a variety of molecular masses due to natural isotopes, the average mass is usually not identical to the mass of any single molecule.

Because of the symmetry, after the collision both must be moving away from the center of mass at the same speed.

Because Moonies aren't as prevalent in our society today as they were several years ago ... some might mentioned the mass weddings performed by Sun Myung Moon.

Because it comprises most of the mass in water, oxygen comprises most of the mass of living organisms ( for example, about two-thirds of the human body's mass ).

Because the stars in an open cluster are all at roughly the same distance from Earth, and were born at roughly the same time from the same raw material, the differences in apparent brightness among cluster members is due only to their mass.

Because of the increased mass, they usually employed ball bearings or roller bearings in the spindle to reduce friction and noise.

Because the stars were all born at roughly the same time, the different properties of all the stars in a cluster are a function only of mass, and so stellar evolution theories rely on observations of open and globular clusters.

Because the Moon's mass is a considerable fraction of that of the Earth ( about 1: 81 ), the two bodies can be regarded as a double planet system, rather than as a planet with a satellite.

Because in early Anglo-Latin writing, paterfamilias (" head of a family, householder ") usually referred to a ceorl, Donald A. Bullough suggests that Alcuin's family was of cierlisc status: i. e., free but subordinate to a noble lord, and that Alcuin and other members of his family rose to prominence through beneficial connections with the aristocracy.

Because letters usually stand for consonants, it is classified as an abjad.

Because of this, is usually a more effective choice under these operating systems ; sensitivity for these two combinations can be enhanced by the CONFIG. SYS statement.

Because a server usually does not know how a document is encoded — especially if documents are created on different platforms or in different regions — many servers simply do not include a reference to the "" in the header, thus avoiding making false promises.

Because of statistical probability and restrictions on the relative diameters of the individual tubes, one of the shells, and thus the whole MWNT, is usually a zero-gap metal.

Because of its large size, Cs < sup >+</ sup > usually adopts coordination numbers greater than six-coordination, which is typical for the lighter alkali metal cations.

Because of the complex shape of this space, it is usually measured directly rather than calculated.

Because the number of " words " that can be formed is vastly larger than in standard English, the board usually ends up tightly packed in places, and necessarily quite empty in others.

Because these paired books had to fit a fixed total page length, one or both were usually abridged to fit, and Wollheim often made other editorial alterations — as witness the differences between Poul Anderson's Ace novel War of the Wing-Men and its definitive revised edition, The Man Who Counts.

Because forest canopies are usually higher than this, rain drops can often regain terminal velocity even after striking the canopy.

* Because the device is never shut off completely there is no " turn on " time, little problem with charge storage, and generally better high frequency performance and feedback loop stability ( and usually fewer high-order harmonics ).

Because the output pulses have a fixed amplitude, the switching elements ( usually MOSFETs, but valves ( vacuum tubes ) and bipolar transistors were once used ) are switched either completely on or completely off, rather than operated in linear mode.

Because of these and other side-effects, it is usually reserved for patients having exhausted other treatment options.

Because of the incompleteness of the fossil record, there is usually no way to know exactly how close a transitional fossil is to the point of divergence.

Because of the softness of pure ( 24k ) gold, it is usually alloyed with base metals for use in jewelry, altering its hardness and ductility, melting point, color and other properties.

Because of their size, eyesight and powerful kicks, adult giraffes are usually not subject to predation.

Because thyroid tissue usually contains a substantial reserve of thyroid hormone, thyrostatics can take weeks to become effective, and the dose often needs to be carefully titrated over a period of months, with regular doctor visits and blood tests to monitor results.

Because it is usually more convenient to work with unrestricted integrals than restricted ones, we have chosen our normalizing constant to reflect this.

Because of its high reactivity, lithium never occurs freely in nature, and instead, only appears in compounds, which are usually ionic.

Because of its reactivity with water, lithium is usually stored under cover of a viscous hydrocarbon, often petroleum jelly.

Because of this, these devices are usually operated between crossed polarizers such that they appear bright with no voltage ( the eye is much more sensitive to variations in the dark state than the bright state ).

Because a compound word is composed of established lexeme they are usually easier to acquire than loan words or neologisms.

Because of this, a conjure hand is also considered a hoodoo bag ; usually made by a respected community conjure doctor.