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| metal alloy comparison table | ||||||
| Subject | has comment | is one of | be produced by mechanism | have chemical composition | have progenitor mineral | is an instance of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kamacite | 295 minerals found to occur in meteorites | weathering in Earth's atmosphere when produced in iron meteorite | nickel-iron metal alloy with up to 7.5 % nickel | cohenite or haxonite when it occurs in weathered iron meteorite | ubiquitous iron meteorite mineral | |
| taenite | apparently not a single iron-nickel phase | 4000 well-characterized minerals | nickel-iron metal alloy with a 27 to 65 % nickel content | mineral not present on Earth |
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