plessite
English
Noun
plessite (plural plessites)
- 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”, in Mindat.org, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.
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