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lonsdaleite comparison table

Subject	is one of	be produced by mechanism	is produced by mechanism	has definition	have progenitor mineral	has genesi	is a kind of	has abundance in iron meteorite	is an instance of	has stable polymorph
metastable mineral	4000 well-characterized minerals			a polymorphic mineral in a high energy state relative to room temperature and pressure			polymorphic mineral
meteorite mineral formed by shock	295 minerals found to occur in meteorites	shock					meteorite mineral
mineral not present on Earth	4000 well-characterized minerals			a mineral not known as a terrestrial mineral or extremely rare on Earth			mineral
presolar mineral	295 minerals found to occur in meteorites			mineral predating the formation of the solar system found in meteorites		before our solar system was formed if found in meteorite and appears as an interstellar grain inclusion	meteorite mineral
very rare iron meteorite mineral	295 minerals found to occur in meteorites			a mineral very rarely found in the iron phase of one or a few iron meteorites			iron meteorite mineral	very rare only found in one or a few meteorites
lonsdaleite	4000 well-characterized minerals	shock	shock exceeding 13 GPa on the meteorite parent bodies not during collison with Earth		graphite when produced by shock metamorphism	before our solar system was formed if found in meteorite and appears as an interstellar grain inclusion		very rare only found in one or a few meteorites	mineral not present on Earth	graphite

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