plessite
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[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]- David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Plessite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “plessite”, in Mindat.org[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.