rensselaerite

Meaning

Noun

A soft, compact variety of talc, being an altered pyroxene, sometimes worked in a lathe into inkstands and other articles, found in New York and Canada.

Origin

After Stephen Van Rensselaer, founder in 1824 of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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