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Science 19 August 1966:
Vol. 153. no. 3738, pp. 877 - 880
DOI: 10.1126/science.153.3738.877
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Electrolytic Dissolution of Iron Meteorites

Stanford L. Tackett 1, Wallace M. Meyer Jr. 2, Frank G. Pany 2, and Carleton B. Moore 3

1 Department of Chemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe; Department of Chemistry, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania.
2 Department of Chemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe
3 Department of Chemistry, Arizona State University, xsTempe

When iron meteorites are dissolved anodically in neutral solution, nonmetallic inclusions are not attached and collect at the bottom of the anode compartment. When the meteorites contain both kamacite and taenite, the kamacite dissolves preferentially, revealing a three-dimensional Widmanstätten pattern.

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