Rensselaerite
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 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. uncountable
"1840, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OrqB7elAQrwC&pg=PA321&lpg=PA321&dq=%22rensselaerite%22&source=bl&ots=pj8PiIHqLW&sig=TtiKA3EELWApIeKjjdL3aE3kX0E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjfx4SR_p7TAhULD8AKHfJxAOA4FBDoAQhAMAk#v=onepage&q=%22rensselaerite%22&f=false ("Assembly: State of New York, Issue 50", published 1840, digitised 2010). To this I may subjoin Rensselaerite, which frequently occurs in thick, heavy beds in connexion with the above."
- 2 a kind of soft talc; sometimes used as wood filler wordnet
Example
More examples"1840, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OrqB7elAQrwC&pg=PA321&lpg=PA321&dq=%22rensselaerite%22&source=bl&ots=pj8PiIHqLW&sig=TtiKA3EELWApIeKjjdL3aE3kX0E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjfx4SR_p7TAhULD8AKHfJxAOA4FBDoAQhAMAk#v=onepage&q=%22rensselaerite%22&f=false ("Assembly: State of New York, Issue 50", published 1840, digitised 2010). To this I may subjoin Rensselaerite, which frequently occurs in thick, heavy beds in connexion with the above."
Etymology
After Stephen Van Rensselaer, founder in 1824 of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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