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iron meteorite characteristic comparison table

Subject	has origin	has color	has weather resistance	has texture	has extent	are coherent over	occur	be oserved in	has definition	is part of	has composition	has thickness	be different	is a kind of
iron meteorite fusion crust		blue-black to black	very low	resembling freshly welded steel	directly proportional to the initial velocity of a meteoroid						magnetite (iron oxide)	small fraction of a millimeter	from interior of meteorite	iron meteorite characteristic
Neumann lines	shock waves produced in space or during atmospheric entry									iron meteorite				iron meteorite characteristic
Widmanstatten figure						original gamma-iron crytstals	in terrestrial iron ores	cut and polished meteorite sections etched with nitric acid	intergrowth of kamacite plates bordered by taenite on octahedral faces of octahedrite meteorites (exsolution lamellae)	octahedrite				meteorite characteristic

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