| 11. | Kamacite occurs naturally only in meteorites.
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| 12. | When polished and acid etched the classic Widmanst�tten patterns of intersecting lines of lamellar kamacite, are visible.
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| 13. | In gaps between the kamacite and taenite lamellae, a fine-grained mixture called plessite is often found.
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| 14. | The meteorite, comprising ordinary chondrite with traces of pyroxene, feldspar and kamacite, was subsequently gifted to Museum Victoria.
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| 15. | At times kamacite can be found so closely intermixed with taenite that it is difficult to distinguish them visually, forming plessite.
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| 16. | In octahedrites it is found in bands interleaving with kamacite forming Widmanst�tten patterns, whereas in ataxites it is the dominant constituent.
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| 17. | "' Kamacite "'is an alloy of iron and nickel, which is found on Earth only in meteorites.
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| 18. | Thirty percent of the meteorite is the iron-rich metallic phases kamacite and taenite, with the rest mostly made up of olivine.
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| 19. | Taenite contains more nickel ( 12 to 45 wt . % Ni ) than kamacite ( which has 5 to 12 wt . % Ni ).
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| 20. | About 1 in 20 meteorites consist of the unique iron-nickel minerals taenite ( 35 80 % iron ) and kamacite ( 90 95 % iron ).
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