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ubiquitous iron meteorite mineral comparison table

Subject	has comment	is one of	be produced by mechanism	have color	has definition	have chemical composition	have progenitor mineral	has genesi	is a kind of	is an instance of
awaruite		295 minerals found to occur in meteorites								ubiquitous iron meteorite mineral
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
martensite		4000 well-characterized minerals	shear transformation during shock heating and quenching				taneite when produced by shock metamorphism			mineral not present on Earth
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
tetrataenite		295 minerals found to occur in meteorites								ubiquitous iron meteorite mineral
troilite		295 minerals found to occur in meteorites		brass	iron sufide common to many types of meteorites and in lunar rocks	FeS similar to pyrrhotite		created on Mars if found in martian meteorite	sulfide	ubiquitous iron meteorite mineral

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