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Taenite is a
mineral found naturally on
Earth mostly in iron meteorites. It is an
alloy of iron and nickel, with a
chemical formula of Fe,Ni and nickel...
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hexahedrite types). In the
octahedrites it is
found in
bands interleaving with
taenite forming Widmanstätten patterns. In hexahedrites, fine
parallel lines called...
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kamacite and
taenite bands or
ribbons called lamellae. Commonly, in gaps
between the lamellae, a fine-grained
mixture of
kamacite and
taenite called plessite...
- iron and nickel,
mainly in the form of the
mineral phases kamacite and
taenite.
Meteoric iron
makes up the bulk of iron
meteorites but is also
found in...
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impurities (such as
cobalt or carbon) may be present.
Taenite is 20% to 65% nickel.
Kamacite and
taenite are also
found in
nickel iron meteorites. The most...
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certain nickel concentration that
leads to the
exsolution of
kamacite out of
taenite while cooling.
Octahedrites derive their name from the
crystal structure...
- (a m****ive
impure form of uraninite)
Plessite (mixture of
kamacite and
taenite) Pot****ium alum or
potash alum (as a mineral, is
called alum-(K)) Qingsongite...
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similar to that of iron meteorites,
consisting mostly of
kamacite and
taenite in
different proportions. The
silicates are
dominated by olivine. Accessory...
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meteoric iron that
usually consists of two
mineral phases:
kamacite and
taenite. Most iron
meteorites originate from
cores of planetesimals, with the exception...
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found in a
number of iron-rich meterorites.
Consisting of
kamacite and
taenite and
formed under extremely slow
cooling conditions—about 100 to 10,000 °C/Myr...
