50 relations: Ablation, Alaca Höyük, Allotropes of iron, Alloy, Antitaenite, Austenite, Bronze Age, Cape York meteorite, Chinga meteorite, Cobalt, Collecting, Cranbourne meteorite, Etching, Gallium, Geochemistry, Germanium, Gerzeh culture, Gibeon (meteorite), Glossary of meteoritics, International Mineralogical Association, Inuit, Iron, Iron Age, Iron Man (Buddhist statue), Iron meteorite, Kamacite, Meteorite, Mineral, Nama people, Native metal, Neumann lines, Nickel, Ozone, Plessite, Shang dynasty, Smelting, Solid solution, Stony-iron meteorite, Taenite, Telluric iron, Tetrataenite, The New York Times, Thin section, Thokcha, Tutankhamun, Tutankhamun's meteoric iron dagger, Ugarit, Umm el-Marra, Vaiśravaṇa, Widmanstätten pattern.
Ablation
Ablation is removal of material from the surface of an object by vaporization, chipping, or other erosive processes.
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Alaca Höyük
Alacahöyük or Alaca Höyük (sometimes also spelled as Alacahüyük, Aladja-Hoyuk, Euyuk, or Evuk) is the site of a Neolithic and Hittite settlement and is an important archaeological site.
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Allotropes of iron
Iron represents perhaps the best-known example for allotropy in a metal.
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Alloy
An alloy is a combination of metals or of a metal and another element.
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Antitaenite
Antitaenite is a meteoritic metal alloy mineral composed of iron and nickel, 20–40% Ni (and traces of other elements) that has a face centered cubic crystal structure.
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Austenite
Austenite, also known as gamma-phase iron (γ-Fe), is a metallic, non-magnetic allotrope of iron or a solid solution of iron, with an alloying element.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.
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Cape York meteorite
The Cape York meteorite is named for Cape York, near the location of its discovery in Savissivik, Meteorite Island, Greenland, and is one of the largest iron meteorites in the world.
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Chinga meteorite
The Chinga meteorite is an iron meteorite.
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Cobalt
Cobalt is a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27.
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Collecting
The hobby of collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining items that are of interest to an individual collector.
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Cranbourne meteorite
The Cranbourne meteorite is an octahedrite iron meteorite.
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Etching
Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal.
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Gallium
Gallium is a chemical element with symbol Ga and atomic number 31.
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Geochemistry
Geochemistry is the science that uses the tools and principles of chemistry to explain the mechanisms behind major geological systems such as the Earth's crust and its oceans.
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Germanium
Germanium is a chemical element with symbol Ge and atomic number 32.
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Gerzeh culture
Gerzeh (also Girza or Jirzah) was a prehistoric Egyptian cemetery located along the west bank of the Nile.
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Gibeon (meteorite)
Gibeon is a meteorite that fell in prehistoric times in Namibia.
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Glossary of meteoritics
This is a glossary of terms used in meteoritics, the science of meteorites.
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International Mineralogical Association
The International Mineralogical Association (IMA) is an international group of 38 national societies.
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Inuit
The Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, "the people") are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada and Alaska.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.
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Iron Man (Buddhist statue)
The Iron Man statue is a, sculpture depicting what could be the Buddhist deity Vaiśravaṇa that may be made from a rare ataxite class nickel-rich iron meteorite.
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Iron meteorite
Iron meteorites are meteorites that consist overwhelmingly of an iron–nickel alloy known as meteoric iron that usually consists of two mineral phases: kamacite and taenite.
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Kamacite
Kamacite is an alloy of iron and nickel, which is found on Earth only in meteorites.
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Meteorite
A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or moon.
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Mineral
A mineral is a naturally occurring chemical compound, usually of crystalline form and not produced by life processes.
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Nama people
Nama (in older sources also called Namaqua) are an African ethnic group of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.
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Native metal
A native metal is any metal that is found in its metallic form, either pure in nature.
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Neumann lines
Neumann lines, or Neumann bands, are fine patterns of parallel lines seen in cross-sections of many hexahedrite iron meteorites in the kamacite phase, although they may appear also in octahedrites provided the kamacite phase is about 30 micrometres wide.
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Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28.
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Ozone
Ozone, or trioxygen, is an inorganic molecule with the chemical formula.
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Plessite
Plessite is a meteorite texture consisting of a fine-grained mixture of the minerals kamacite and taenite found in the octahedrite iron meteorites.
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Shang dynasty
The Shang dynasty or Yin dynasty, according to traditional historiography, ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Zhou dynasty.
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Smelting
Smelting is a process of applying heat to ore in order to melt out a base metal.
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Solid solution
A solid solution is a solid-state solution of one or more solutes in a solvent.
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Stony-iron meteorite
Stony-iron meteorites or siderolites are meteorites that consist of nearly equal parts of meteoric iron and silicates.
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Taenite
Taenite (Fe,Ni) is a mineral found naturally on Earth mostly in iron meteorites.
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Telluric iron
Telluric iron, also called native iron, is iron that originated on Earth, and is found in a metallic form rather than as an ore.
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Tetrataenite
Tetrataenite is a native metal composed of chemically-ordered L10-type FeNi, recognized as a mineral in 1980.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Thin section
In optical mineralogy and petrography, a thin section (or petrographic thin section) is a laboratory preparation of a rock, mineral, soil, pottery, bones, or even metal sample for use with a polarizing petrographic microscope, electron microscope and electron microprobe.
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Thokcha
Thokcha (also alternatively) "sky-iron" are tektites and meteorites which are often high in iron content, refer iron meteorite.
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Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun (alternatively spelled with Tutenkh-, -amen, -amon) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled c. 1332–1323 BC in the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom or sometimes the New Empire Period.
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Tutankhamun's meteoric iron dagger
Tutankhamun's iron dagger closely correlates with meteoric composition, including homogeneity.
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Ugarit
Ugarit (𐎜𐎂𐎗𐎚, ʼUgart; أُوغَارِيت Ūġārīt, alternatively أُوجَارِيت Ūǧārīt) was an ancient port city in northern Syria.
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Umm el-Marra
Umm el-Marra, أم المرى, east of modern Aleppo in the Jabbul Plain of northern Syria, was one of the ancient Near East's oldest cities, located on a crossroads of two trade routes northwest of Ebla, in a landscape that was much more fertile than it is today.
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Vaiśravaṇa
(Sanskrit) or (Pali), is the name of one of the Four Heavenly Kings, and is considered an important figure in Japanese Buddhism.
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Widmanstätten pattern
Widmanstätten patterns, also called Thomson structures, are figures of long nickel-iron crystals, found in the octahedrite iron meteorites and some pallasites.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoric_iron