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Meteorolite :: Meteorolite (n.) A meteoric stone; an aerolite; a meteorite.

Meteorical :: Meteorical (a.) Meteoric.

Meteoric :: Meteoric (a.) Flashing; brilliant; transient; like a meteor; as, meteoric fame..

Daubreelite :: Daubreelite (n.) A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.

Aerolite :: Aerolite (n.) A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone..

Meteoric :: Meteoric (a.) Influenced by the weather; as, meteoric conditions..

Troilite :: Troilite (n.) Native iron protosulphide, FeS. It is known only in meteoric irons, and is usually in imbedded nodular masses of a bronze color..

Schreibersite :: Schreibersite (n.) A mineral occurring in steel-gray flexible folia. It contains iron, nickel, and phosphorus, and is found only in meteoric iron..

Aerolitic :: Aerolitic (a.) Of or pertaining to aerolites; meteoric; as, aerolitic iron..

Meteoric :: Meteoric (a.) Of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as, meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones..

Chondrite :: Chondrite (n.) A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.

Chondrule :: Chondrule (n.) A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites..

Widmanstatten Figures :: Widmanstatten figures () Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstatten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite..

Aerosiderite :: Aerosiderite (n.) A mass of meteoric iron.

Holosiderite :: Holosiderite (n.) Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.

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