plessite

English

Noun

plessite (plural plessites)

  1. A meteorite texture consisting of a fine-grained mixture of the minerals kamacite and taenite, found in the octahedrite iron meteorites.

Further reading

  • “Plessite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
  • plessite mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016

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