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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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    kamacite and taenite bands or ribbons called lamellae. Commonly, in gaps between the lamellae, a fine-grained mixture of kamacite and taenite called plessite...
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    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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    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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    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. Nickel is...
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    steel 15–25% Ni Meteoric iron A native combination of mostly kamacite and taenite, and minor amounts of tetrataenite, antitaenite, and awaruite 5–30% Ni...
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    alloy, taenite. It is one of the mineral phases found in meteoric iron. Tetrataenite forms naturally in iron meteorites that contain taenite that are...
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    characterized by several iron-nickel alloy species. Two examples are kamacite and taenite, which are found in iron meteorites; these species differ by the amount...
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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...
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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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    iron meteorites composed of iron-nickel alloys, such as kamacite and/or taenite. Most iron meteorites are thought to come from the cores of planetesimals...
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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...
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  • (a massive impure form of uraninite) Plessite (mixture of kamacite and taenite) Potassium alum or potash alum (as a mineral, is called alum-(K)) Qingsongite...
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    weapons. About 1 in 20 meteorites consist of the unique iron-nickel minerals taenite (35–80% iron) and kamacite (90–95% iron). Native iron is also rarely found...
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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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    with trace amounts of germanium and iridium. Minerals present include taenite, plessite, troilite, chromite, kamacite, and schreibersite. Specimens of...
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  • Tetrarooseveltite Troo Timroseite Tim Tounkite Tou Tsepinite-Na Tsp-Na Taenite Tae Tavorite Tav Tetrataenite Ttae Tin (stannum) Sn Tourmaline Tur Tsepinite-Sr...
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  • fine grained intergrowth found in meteoric iron consisting of kamacite, taenite and tetrataenite lamella. Presolar grains – interstellar solid matter in...
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    Metallic meteorites are composed primarily of the iron-nickel alloys: taenite (high nickel content) and kamacite (low nickel content). However, there...
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    Stony-iron Subgroups A B C anomalous Composition Meteoric iron (kamacite, taenite & tetrataenite); silicates (mostly pyroxene & Ca-rich plagioclase); sulphides...
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  • Earth turn out to be ferronickel, and take the form of kamacite and/or taenite.[citation needed] Ferronickel has a face-centred cubic crystal structure...
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    family: 05 kamacite? (iron var.), 05 iron, 05 chromium; 10 antitaenite*, 10 taenite, 10 tetrataenite; 15 chromferide, 15 wairauite, 15 ferchromide; 20 awaruite...
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    common component. Base metal sulfides Schreibersite – iron nickel phosphide Taenite – iron nickel alloy Troilite – a variety of the iron sulfide mineral pyrrhotite...
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  • mixtures tend to exsolve into a mixture of iron-rich kamacite and iron-poor taenite.: 27  Magnetochemistry Dunlop, David J.; Özdemir, Özden (1997). Rock magnetism:...
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  • Devitrified Absent Metal: Maximum Ni content - <20% Taenite minor or absent >20% kamacite and taenite in exsolution relationship Sulfides: Mean Ni content...
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  • structure. There are three other known Fe-Ni meteoritic minerals: kamacite, taenite, and tetrataenite. The existence of antitaenite as a new mineral species...
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    sulfide) in the form of tiny plates. It occurs associated with kamacite, taenite, daubreelite, troilite and sphalerite, (Zn,Fe)S. In addition to the Cape...
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  • association with the minerals ringwoodite, olivine, tetragonal ringwoodite, taenite, and MgSiO3 rich glass. Physical properties such as color, luster, streak...
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    texture consisting of a fine-grained mixture of the minerals kamacite and taenite found in the octahedrite iron meteorites. It occurs in gaps (its name is...
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    Crater, Coconino County, Arizona, US. It occurs associated with kamacite, taenite, schreibersite, cohenite, pentlandite and magnetite. Glossary of meteoritics...
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