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chalcophile

[kal-kuh-fahyl]

chal·co·phile

[kal-kuh-fahyl]
adjective
1.
(of a chemical element in the earth) having an affinity for sulfur.
noun
2.
a chalcophile element.

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Chalcophile is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
chalco- + -phile
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