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chondrule comparison table

Subject	has origin	has oxidation state	has texture	has olivine content	has pryroxene content	has nucleation mechanism	has definition	has composition	has abundance	has iron oxide content	has acronym	has Mg content of olivine or pyroxene	is a kind of
aluminum-rich chondrule								glass	most abundant part of chondrite meteorite				chondrule
chromite-rich chondrule								glass	most abundant part of chondrite meteorite				chondrule
compound chondrule	conjoined during chondrule formation						two or more chondrules conjoined during chondrule formation	glass	most abundant part of chondrite meteorite				chondrule
cryptocrystaline chondrule			extremely fine-grained intergrowths of pyroxene and glass with grain size less than 2 micrometers				chondrule with extremely fine-grained intergrowths of pyroxene and glass with grain size less than 2 micrometers	ferromagnesian minerals	most chondrules are ferromagnesian		C chondrule		ferromagnesian chondrule
ferromagnesian chondrule							chondrule with a high abundance of olivine and pyroxene crystals	ferromagnesian minerals	most chondrules are ferromagnesian				chondrule
granular olivine-pyroxene chondrule							chondrule with uniformly smaller grains than porphyritic chondrules	glass	most abundant part of chondrite meteorite				chondrule
porphyritic chondrule	extensively melted droplet in which abundant heterogenous nucleation sites were preserved during the chondrule melting event					relict grains consisting of remnant crystals less than 10 microns in size		glass	most abundant part of chondrite meteorite				chondrule
silica-bearing chondrule								glass	most abundant part of chondrite meteorite				chondrule
superliquidus chondrule	droplet melted beyond superliquidus temperatures, eliminating most viable nuclei					impinging fine-grained dust		glass	most abundant part of chondrite meteorite				chondrule
type A chondrule				high	low		a chondrule textural classification based on the predominance of olivine crystals	glass	most abundant part of chondrite meteorite				chondrule
type AB chondrule				intermediate	intermediate			glass	most abundant part of chondrite meteorite				chondrule
type B chondrule				low	high		a chondrule textural classification based on the predominance of pyroxene crystals	glass	most abundant part of chondrite meteorite				chondrule
type I chondrule		low or reduced					a chondrule compositional classification based on low iron oxide content and reduced oxidation state	glass	most abundant part of chondrite meteorite	low		greater than 90 %	chondrule
type II chondrule		high or oxidized					a chondrule compositional classification based on high iron oxide content and highly oxidized state	glass	most abundant part of chondrite meteorite	high		less than 90 %	chondrule

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