TAENITE (Ni,Fe) (cubic)

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polished and acid etched slice, with crust, illustrating Widmanstaaten lines, with taenite darker areas between kamacite crystals, with tarnished troilite inclusions, in fine octahedrite meteorite
Gibeon Meteorite, found 1836, Great Namaqualand, Hardap, Namibia

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