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A metallographic and microprobe study of the metal phases in the Weekeroo Station meteorite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

H. J. Axon
Affiliation:
Metallurgy Department, The University, Manchester M13 9PL
P. L. Smith
Affiliation:
Metallurgy Department, The University, Manchester M13 9PL

Summary

The kamacite contains a general precipitation of micrometre-sized particles of exsolved taenite. Larger particles are found decorating Neumann lines and at kamacite grain boundaries. The coexisting kamacite and taenite appear to have nickel contents of 6·4 % and about 53%, which are consistent with a temperature of about 330–60 °C on the binary iron-nickel equilibrium diagram.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1970

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