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majorite comparison table

Subject	is one of	be produced by mechanism	has definition	have progenitor mineral	is a kind of	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
majorite	4000 well-characterized minerals	solid state shock transformation into veins in highly shocked ordinary chondrites		orthopyroxene when produced by shock metamorphism		mineral not present on Earth	orthopyroxene

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