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Meteoric iron

Index Meteoric iron

Meteoric iron, sometimes meteoritic iron, is a native metal found in meteorites and made from the elements iron and nickel mainly in the form of the mineral phases kamacite and taenite. [1]

81 relations: Acapulcoite, Alloy, André Laugier, Angra dos Reis meteorite, Asteroid impact avoidance, Ataxite, Bellsbank meteorite, Blacksmith, Brachina meteorite, Brachinite, Cape York meteorite, Chelyabinsk meteor, Chelyabinsk meteorite, Chinga meteorite, Clavering Island, Cobalt, Conservation and restoration of copper-based objects, Copper, Corinthian bronze, Daubréelite, Dronino meteorite, Eagle Station grouplet, Electrum, Ferrous metallurgy, Glossary of meteoritics, Helium, History of chemistry, History of China, History of metallurgy in China, History of Siberia, IAB meteorite, IIAB meteorites, IIG meteorite, IIICD meteorite, Iron, Iron Age, Iron in folklore, Iron meteorite, Iron–nickel alloy, Ironwork, Itqiy meteorite, IVB meteorite, Las Mercedes (archaeological site, Costa Rica), Limonite, List of meteorite minerals, List of minerals (complete), Lodranite, Matt Parker, Mbozi meteorite, Mesosiderite, ..., Metallurgy, Meteor Crater, Meteorite, Middle-earth weapons and armour, Nantan meteorite, Native metal, Nickel, Nonmagmatic meteorite, Octahedrite, Pallasite, Pyroxene pallasite grouplet, Qijia culture, Rosin, Sample-return mission, Santa Vitoria do Palmar meteorite, Savissivik, Standing bell, Stony-iron meteorite, Telluric iron, Tetrataenite, Thokcha, Timeline of chemical element discoveries, Timeline of the discovery and classification of minerals, Tubal-cain, Tunguska event, Tutankhamun's meteoric iron dagger, Twannberg meteorite, Vermillion meteorite, Winona meteorite, Yenisei Kyrgyz, Zaklodzie meteorite. Expand index (31 more) »

Acapulcoite

Acapulcoites are a group of the primitive achondrite class of stony meteorites.

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Alloy

An alloy is a combination of metals or of a metal and another element.

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André Laugier

André Laugier (1 August 1770, in Lisieux – 19 April 1832, in Paris) was a French chemist, pharmacist and mineralogist.

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Angra dos Reis meteorite

The Angra dos Reis meteorite is the type specimen of the angrite group.

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Asteroid impact avoidance

Asteroid impact avoidance comprises a number of methods by which near-Earth objects (NEO) could be diverted, preventing destructive impact events.

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Ataxite

Ataxites (from Greek meaning "without structure") are a structural class of iron meteorites with a high nickel content and show no Widmanstätten patterns upon etching.

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Bellsbank meteorite

The Bellsbank meteorite is a hexahedrite iron meteorite with abundant schreibersite.

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Blacksmith

A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. whitesmith).

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Brachina meteorite

The Brachina meteorite is the type specimen of the brachinites class of the asteroidal achondrites.

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Brachinite

Brachinites are a group of meteorites that are classified either as primitive achondrites or as asteroidal achondrites.

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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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Chelyabinsk meteor

The Chelyabinsk meteor was a superbolide caused by an approximately 20-metre near-Earth asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere over Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 YEKT (03:20 UTC), with a speed of 19.16 ± 0.15 kilometres per second (60,000–69,000 km/h or 40,000–42,900 mph).

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Chelyabinsk meteorite

The Chelyabinsk meteorite (Russian: Челябинск or Челябинский метеорит) is the fragmented remains of the large Chelyabinsk meteor of 15 February 2013 which reached the ground after the meteor's passage through the atmosphere.

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Chinga meteorite

The Chinga meteorite is an iron meteorite.

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Clavering Island

Clavering Island (Clavering Ø) is a large island in eastern Greenland off Gael Hamkes Bay, to the south of Wollaston Foreland.

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Cobalt

Cobalt is a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27.

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Conservation and restoration of copper-based objects

The conservation and restoration of copper and copper-alloy objects is the preservation and protection of objects of historical and personal value made from copper or copper alloy.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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Corinthian bronze

Corinthian bronze, also named Corinthian brass or æs Corinthiacum, was a highly valuable metal alloy in classical antiquity.

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Daubréelite

Daubréelite is a rare sulfide mineral.

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Dronino meteorite

The Dronino meteorite is a iron meteorite that was found in the Ryazan Oblast of Russia in July 2000.

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Eagle Station grouplet

The Eagle Station grouplet (abbreviated PES - Pallasite Eagle Station) is a set of pallasite meteorite specimen that don't fit into any of the defined pallasite groups.

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Electrum

Electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver, with trace amounts of copper and other metals.

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Ferrous metallurgy

Ferrous metallurgy is the metallurgy of iron and its alloys.

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Glossary of meteoritics

This is a glossary of terms used in meteoritics, the science of meteorites.

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Helium

Helium (from lit) is a chemical element with symbol He and atomic number 2.

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History of chemistry

The history of chemistry represents a time span from ancient history to the present.

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History of China

The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC,William G. Boltz, Early Chinese Writing, World Archaeology, Vol.

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History of metallurgy in China

Recent evidence indicates that the earliest metal objects in China go back to the late fourth millennium BCE.

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History of Siberia

The early history of Siberia is greatly influenced by the sophisticated nomadic civilizations of the Scythians (Pazyryk) on the west of the Ural Mountains and Xiongnu (Noin-Ula) on the east of the Urals, both flourishing before the Christian era.

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IAB meteorite

IAB meteorites are a group of iron meteorites according to their overall composition and a group of primitive achondrites because of silicate inclusions that show a strong affinity to winonaites and chondrites.

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IIAB meteorites

IIAB meteorites are a group of iron meteorites.

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IIG meteorite

IIG meteorites are a group of iron meteorites.

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IIICD meteorite

IIICD meteorites are a group of primitive achondrites.

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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 in folklore

Iron has a long and varied tradition in the mythology and folklore of the world.

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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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Iron–nickel alloy

An iron–nickel alloy or nickel–iron alloy, abbreviated FeNi or NiFe, is a group of alloys consisting primarily of the elements nickel (Ni) and iron (Fe).

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Ironwork

Ironwork is any weapon, artwork, utensil or architectural feature made of iron especially used for decoration.

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Itqiy meteorite

The Itqiy meteorite is an enstatite-rich stony-iron meteorite.

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IVB meteorite

IVB meteorites are a group of ataxite iron meteorites classified as achondrites.

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Las Mercedes (archaeological site, Costa Rica)

Las Mercedes (L-289-LM) is a complex archaeological site located on the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica between the foothills of Turrialba Volcano and the alluvial plain.

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Limonite

Limonite is an iron ore consisting of a mixture of hydrated iron(III) oxide-hydroxides in varying composition.

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List of meteorite minerals

A meteorite mineral is a mineral found chiefly or exclusively within meteorites or meteorite derived material.

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List of minerals (complete)

Mineralogy is an active science in which minerals are discovered or recognised on a regular basis.

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Lodranite

Lodranites are a small group of primitive achondrite meteorites that consists of meteoric iron and silicate minerals.

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Matt Parker

Matthew Parker (born December 22, 1980) is an Australian stand-up comedian, author, YouTube personality and maths communicator.

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Mbozi meteorite

Mbozi is an ungrouped iron meteorite found in Tanzania.

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Mesosiderite

Mesosiderites are a class of stony–iron meteorites consisting of about equal parts of metallic nickel-iron and silicate.

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Metallurgy

Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys.

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Meteor Crater

Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater approximately east of Flagstaff and west of Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States.

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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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Middle-earth weapons and armour

Weapons and armour of Middle-earth are found in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy writings, such as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.

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Nantan meteorite

The Nantan meteorite is an iron meteorite that belongs to the IAB group and the MG (main group) subgroup.

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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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Nickel

Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28.

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Nonmagmatic meteorite

Nonmagmatic meteorite (also nonmagmatic iron meteorite) is a deprecated term formerly used in meteoritics to describe iron meteorites that were originally thought to have not formed by igneous processes, to differentiate them from the magmatic meteorites, produced by the crystallization of a metal melt.

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Octahedrite

Octahedrites are the most common structural class of iron meteorites.

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Pallasite

The pallasites are a class of stony–iron meteorite.

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Pyroxene pallasite grouplet

The pyroxene pallasite grouplet is a subdivision of the pallasite meteorites (stony-irons).

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Qijia culture

The Qijia culture (2200 BC – 1600 BC) was an early Bronze Age culture distributed around the upper Yellow River region of Gansu (centered in Lanzhou) and eastern Qinghai, China.

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Rosin

Rosin, also called colophony or Greek pitch (pix græca), is a solid form of resin obtained from pines and some other plants, mostly conifers, produced by heating fresh liquid resin to vaporize the volatile liquid terpene components.

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Sample-return mission

A sample-return mission is a spacecraft mission with the goal of collecting and returning with tangible samples from an extraterrestrial location to Earth for analysis.

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Santa Vitoria do Palmar meteorite

The Santa Vitoria do Palmar meteorite was found near the city of Santa Vitoria do Palmar in Brazil in 2003 (three stones) and 2004 (one stone).

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Savissivik

Savissivik (West Greenlandic; old spelling: Savigsivik) or Havighivik (Polar Eskimo) is a settlement in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northern Greenland.

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Standing bell

A standing bell or resting bell is an inverted bell, supported from below with the rim uppermost.

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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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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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Thokcha

Thokcha (also alternatively) "sky-iron" are tektites and meteorites which are often high in iron content, refer iron meteorite.

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Timeline of chemical element discoveries

The discovery of the 118 chemical elements known to exist today is presented here in chronological order.

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Timeline of the discovery and classification of minerals

Georgius Agricola is considered the 'father of mineralogy'.

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Tubal-cain

Tubal-cain or Tubalcain (תּוּבַל קַיִן, Tūḇal Qayin) is a person mentioned in the Bible, in as well as in the Hebrew Book of Jasher.

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Tunguska event

The Tunguska event was a large explosion that occurred near the Stony Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908 (NS).

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Tutankhamun's meteoric iron dagger

Tutankhamun's iron dagger closely correlates with meteoric composition, including homogeneity.

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Twannberg meteorite

The Twannberg meteorite is a hexahedrite iron meteorite.

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Vermillion meteorite

The Vermillion meteorite is a pallasite (stony-iron) meteorite and one of two members of the pyroxene pallasite grouplet.

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Winona meteorite

The Winona meteorite is a primitive achondrite meteorite.

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Yenisei Kyrgyz

The Yenisei Kyrgyz, also known as the Ancient Kyrgyz or the Khyagas (Khakas), were an ancient Turkic people who dwelled along the upper Yenisei River in the southern portion of the Minusinsk Depression from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE.

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Zaklodzie meteorite

The Zakłodzie meteorite is a stony-iron meteorite found in Poland in 1998.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoric_iron

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