Widmanstätten Pattern

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5369. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Solar System, Meteors

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A characteristic, roughly hexagonal pattern of intersecting lines that appears on the surface of an octahedrite, a type of iron meteorite, when it is sectioned, polished and etched with acid. The Austrian mineralogist Aloys Joseph von Widmanstätten discovered the pattern in 1804. It is formed by the intergrowth of two nickel-iron alloys under the conditions of slow cooling that pertained in the s...

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