[meteorite-list] NPA 01-30-1857 Pecullar Characteristic of Meteoric Stones

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jan 8 13:53:04 2005
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Paper: New York Daily Times
City: New York City, New York
Date: Friday, January 30, 1857
Page: 2

     PECULLAR CHARACTERISTIC OF METORIC STONES. - There is one character
which is peculiar in the meteoric stone, and which proves to be of high
significance, viz: its substance is composed of various mineral ingrediants
which are identical with matters of familiar occurrence upon the earth; but
amidst these iron is found in great abundance as it is never found on the
earth; that is in a native or nearly pure metallic and uncombined state. On
the terrestrial surface iron is always mingled with diverse matters from
which it has to be extracted by art when it is required as a pure metal. The
omnipresent and corrosive oxygen of the air alone prevents it from
maintaining such condition long; this rusts and eats it away. Oxygen and
iron have so irresistibly strong an attractive or affinity for each other
that they invariably combine when they are left together. Thus, then, the
unoxydized and purely metallic condition of iron in the aerolite proves that
it comes from a situation in which there is no oxygen; that is, from beyond
the bounds of the atmosphere, and that it is, therefore, altogether
unterrestial.

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