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taenite comparison table

Subject	has comment	is one of	has definition	have chemical composition	is a kind of	has abundance in iron meteorite	is an instance of
metal alloy		4000 well-characterized minerals			alloy
mineral not present on Earth		4000 well-characterized minerals	a mineral not known as a terrestrial mineral or extremely rare on Earth		mineral
ubiquitous iron meteorite mineral		295 minerals found to occur in meteorites	a mineral always present in the iron phase of iron and stony iron meteorites		iron meteorite mineral	ubiquitous
taenite	apparently not a single iron-nickel phase	4000 well-characterized minerals		nickel-iron metal alloy with a 27 to 65 % nickel content		ubiquitous	mineral not present on Earth

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