Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given by G. Rose (1864) to one of three subdivisions made by him in the classification of meteoric irons, these divisions being founded on the comparative amount of iron and stony matter present.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) See the Note under
meteorite .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology A stony
meteorite containing roughly equal proportions ofsilicate andnickel -iron metal
Etymologies
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meso- + siderite
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Examples
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"From what we have been able to learn so far, I should say that it is a typical mesosiderite, part rock and part metal.
The Dig Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1995
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