[meteorite-list] Is there room for a meteorite question ?

From: Kevin Fly Hill <khill_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:17:44 2004
Message-ID: <000f01c3be90$1e5104a0$6d00a8c0_at_coxinternet.com>

Question: When water turns to ice the change to a crystal structure
 expands the volume (decreases density). Does this density/expansion change
also occur with the development of taenite/kamacite
lattices? ie. at the same temperature is the density of an iron meteorite
match the density of a "terrestrial" matching mixture that is
"noncrystalline"? Guess you could melt down one of your irons and compare?

Fly Hill

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> Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Is there room for a meteorite question ?
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> > On the same note, thermal expansion...
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> > Presumably as the core solidifies (cools down) it would contract, would
> > it not?, what effect would that have on the crystalline structure
> > (widmanstatten) would there be a gradual stress/distortion in the
> > taenite/kamacite boundries ?
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> > I guess as the core is such a big mass, any significant thermal
> > contraction distortion would hardly be noticeable in a small hand
> > specimen but I would imagine the thermal contraction in something the
> > size of a large planetary body would be massive.
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> > Mark Ford
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