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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given by Reichenbach to the nickel-iron alloy which, as seen in the etched surface of a section of meteoric iron, forms a sort of ground-mass inclosed by the bands of kamacite and thin lines of tænite. See
Widmannstättian figures andmeteorite . Plessite is now regarded as an eutectic mixture of kamacite and tænite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
meteorite texture consisting of a fine-grained mixture of the mineralskamacite andtaenite , found in theoctahedrite iron meteorites .
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