ETCHING IRON METEORITES (or…”The Myth of Nitric Acid”)
Conducted by Ron Hartman Department of Earth Sciences & Astronomy Mt. San Antonio College Fifth in a series of introductory topics for the beginning meteorite collector! A nickel-iron meteorite having an octahedral crystalline structure is essentially an alloy of consisting of two phases of nickel-iron, kamacite and taenite. (The iron has already become a solid but is not yet rigid.
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