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Widmanstatten figure
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Widmanstatten figure	is a part of octahedrite
	is a kind of iron meteorite characteristic
	has definition intergrowth of kamacite plates bordered by taenite on octahedral faces of octahedrite meteorites (exsolution lamellae)
	is a kind of meteorite characteristic
	do not occur in terrestrial iron ores
	are coherent over original gamma-iron crytstals
	can be oserved in cut and polished meteorite sections etched with nitric acid