[meteorite-list] Cleaning Irons

From: Walter Branch <branchw_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Dec 16 19:13:43 2004
Message-ID: <01ff01c4e3cd$3c8cae70$6a01a8c0_at_DrCollman>

Hello Everyone,

Does anyone know the probabilty of finding a nice black magnetite layer
under an outer coating of rust on an iron meteorite? In other words, if I
take a wire brush and solvent to a rusty (but solid) iron, can it be cleaned
down to a dark magnetite layer, or will it result in finding shiney silver
metal. Thanks.

-Walter Branch
Received on Thu 16 Dec 2004 07:13:29 PM PST