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Tim is correct, it's thermal paste.

You should clean the old paste off and reapply new.

You can get a tube pretty much anywhere, Best Buy will carry it, couple of bucks.

You want to reapply anytime you remove a cooler from the cpu to prevent hot spots on the CPU.
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