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rensselaerite

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rensselaerite (ˈrɛnsələˌraɪt, ˌrɛnsəˈlɛəraɪt)
 
n
a white or yellow compact variety of talc, used for ornaments
 
[C19: named after Stephen Van Rensselaer (1764--1839), American army officer and politician]

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Rensselaerite is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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.
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rensselaerite

noun
a kind of soft talc; sometimes used as wood filler 
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