taenite
Sign in to savethumb|right|200px|Widmanstätten pattern showing the two forms of Nickel-Iron, Kamacite and Taenite, in an octahedrite meteorite Taenite is a mineral found naturally on Earth mostly in iron meteorites. It is an alloy of iron and nickel, with a chemical formula of and nickel proportions of 20% up to 65%.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Taenite
- Mineral.category
- Metals and intermetallic alloys
- Mineral.image
- Widmanstatten patterns 2.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Widmanstätten patterns of kamacite and taenite, from a meteorite currently in the Natural History Museum, London.
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Tae
- Mineral.strunz
- 1.AE.10
- Mineral.system
- Isometric
- Mineral.class
- Hexoctahedral (mm) H-M symbol: (4/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Fm3m
- Mineral.color
- Metallic grayish to white
- Mineral.cleavage
- None
- Mineral.fracture
- Hackly
- Mineral.tenacity
- Malleable, flexible
- Mineral.mohs
- 5–5.5
- Mineral.luster
- Metallic
- Mineral.streak
- Light gray
- Mineral.diaphaneity
- Opaque
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Properties
- Meteorite localities with taenite
- See also
- References
thumb|right|200px|Widmanstätten pattern showing the two forms of Nickel-Iron, Kamacite and Taenite, in an octahedrite meteorite Taenite is a mineral found naturally on Earth mostly in iron meteorites. It is an alloy of iron and nickel, with a chemical formula of and nickel proportions of 20% up to 65%.
The name is derived from the Greek ταινία for "band, ribbon". Taenite is a major constituent of iron meteorites. In octahedrites it is found in bands interleaving with kamacite forming Widmanstätten patterns, whereas in ataxites it is the dominant constituent. In octahedrites a fine intermixture with kamacite can occur, which is called plessite.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “taenite” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.