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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IRON METEORITE

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Iron meteorite is a noun.
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WHAT DOES IRON METEORITE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

iron meteorite

Iron meteorite

Iron meteorites are meteorites that consist overwhelmingly of an iron–nickel alloy known as meteoric iron that usually consists of two mineral phases, kamacite and taenite. Iron meteorites originate from planetary cores of planetesimals. Iron meteorites, or their meteoric iron was one of the earliest sources of usable iron available to humans, before the development of smelting which signaled the beginning of the iron age.

Definition of iron meteorite in the English dictionary

The definition of iron meteorite in the dictionary is a meteorite that is composed mainly of iron and nickel.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IRON METEORITE

iron glance
iron grey
Iron Guard
iron hand
iron horse
Iron Lady
iron lung
iron maiden
iron man
iron mask
iron ore
iron out
iron oxide
iron pan
iron pyrite
iron pyrites
iron rations
iron sights
iron will

WORDS THAT END LIKE IRON METEORITE

anchorite
Arborite
chlorite
diorite
evaporite
favourite
fluorite
granodiorite
hypochlorite
labradorite
madreporite
Masorite
meteorite
micrometeorite
Minorite
norite
phosphorite
stony meteorite
tenorite
thorite
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Synonyms and antonyms of iron meteorite in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «iron meteorite» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IRON METEORITE

Find out the translation of iron meteorite to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of iron meteorite from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «iron meteorite» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

铁陨石
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

meteorito de hierro
570 millions of speakers

English

iron meteorite
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लोहे उल्का
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

نيزك الحديد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

железный метеорит
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

meteorito de ferro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লোহার উল্কি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

météorite de fer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Meteorit besi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Eisenmeteorit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

鉄隕石
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

철 운석
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Meteorit wesi
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

thiên thạch sắt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இரும்பு விண்கல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लोह उल्का
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Demir göktaşı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

meteorite di ferro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

żelaza meteorytu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

залізний метеорит
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

meteorit de fier
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

σίδηρο μετεωρίτη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

yster meteoriet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

järn meteorit
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

jern meteoritten
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of iron meteorite

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IRON METEORITE»

The term «iron meteorite» is normally little used and occupies the 137.339 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IRON METEORITE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about iron meteorite

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IRON METEORITE»

Discover the use of iron meteorite in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to iron meteorite and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Iron and Steel in Ancient Times
Forged and hot-chiseled bar produced by a Malayan blacksmith from the Prambanan iron meteorite about 1800 A.D. Scale in cm. Buchwald 1975:989. ter and 4.5 mm deep, to support his swaging tool. A fragment of another Coahuila ...
Vagn Fabritius Buchwald, 2005
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Exploring meteorite mysteries a teacher's guide with ...
Gibeon iron meteorite. This photo shows a sawed surface which has been etched with acid to reveal the criss-cross Widmanstatten pattern. The Gibeon iron meteorite in the sample disk and the Sikhote-Alin meteorite have fine intergrowths of ...
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Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites
Acquiring an iron meteorite for your collection is just the beginning of a lengthy process of preparation, display and storage. Etching a meteorite is as much an artistic endeavor as it is a carefully controlled scientific experiment. Witnessing the ...
O. Richard Norton, Lawrence Chitwood, 2008
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The History of Meteoritics and Key Meteorite Collections: ...
The Yarri octahedrite iron meteorite. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 52. 89-94. Cleverly, W.H., Jarosewich, E. & Mason, B. 1986. Camel Donga meteorite, a new eucrite from the Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia. Meteoritics ...
Gerald Joseph Home McCall, A. J. Bowden, Richard John Howarth, 2006
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West Linn
After hearing a ringing sound emitting when the stone was struck with a white rock, the two men realized that what they discovered was a large iron meteorite. They discussed ways to raise revenue to purchase the land from Oregon Iron and  ...
Cornelia Becker Seigneur, 2009
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New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
Keywords iron meteorite; bulk analysis; kama- cite; taenite; schreibersite; Dunganville INTRODUCTION The Dunganville iron meteorite was found, January 1976, in a creek bed 2 km ENE of the deserted gold-mining town of Dunganville, near ...
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New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
Keywords iron meteorite; bulk analysis; kama- cite; taenite; schreibersite; Dunganville INTRODUCTION The Dunganville iron meteorite was found, January 1976, in a creek bed 2 km ENE of the deserted gold-mining town of Dunganville, near ...
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Meteorite Impact!: The Danger from Space and South Africa's ...
The largest known meteorite in the world, the Hoba iron meteorite in Namibia (Fig . 62), weighs about 50–60 tonnes, but does not reside in a deep crater structure. That is because it is a relatively small rock (about 2.9 m wide, with a thickness ...
Wolf Uwe Reimold, Roger L. Gibson, 2010
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Meteorite Craters
... nickel and iron.6 And the camel-sized lump of iron was perhaps not a myth after all, for in 1966 T. J. Abercrombie reported having found a 4,800- pound iron meteorite at Wabar. L. J. Spencer of the British Museum summed things up in 1933.
Kathleen Mark, 1995
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Glossary of Geology
IIAB iron A member of the magmatic iron-meteorite group IIAB. IIC iron A member of the magmatic iron-meteorite group IIC. IID iron A member of the magmatic iron- meteorite group IID. IIE iron A member of the non-magmatic iron-meteorite ...
Julia A. Jackson, James P. Mehl, Klaus K. E. Neuendorf, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IRON METEORITE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term iron meteorite is used in the context of the following news items.
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Meteors, Meteoroids, and Meteorites, Oh My!
Those meteorites I held up in the intro are mine; they're examples of Sikhote Alin, an iron meteorite that rained debris over Russia in 1947. «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
2
Meteorites: witnesses of the solar system's birth
So, when you hold an iron meteorite, which is a piece from a shattered celestial body, it is almost as though you were touching the deepest ... «The Hindu, May 15»
3
'Sword of Heaven' katana blade forged from meteorite
The blade is forged from a fragment of the massive Gibeon iron meteorite that landed in Namibia in prehistoric times. The meteorite is estimated ... «CNET, May 15»
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Meteorites Shed Light on Earth's Layers
Murnpeowie meteorite, an iron meteorite with regmaglypts resembling thumbprints. Image: James St. John, Wikimedia A new analysis of the ... «Laboratory Equipment, Apr 15»
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California's Largest Meteorite Museum Collection Adds Two Large …
Among the gallery's other holdings is a 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo iron meteorite, part of a large asteroid that crashed into the ... «Sierra Sun Times, Apr 15»
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A Gold Digger's Guide to the Universe
From one ton of mined iron meteorite you would expect to retrieve 7 grams of gold for a miner's ratio of 7 gm/ton. This sounds very profitable, ... «Huffington Post, Feb 15»
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Ancient meteorite coming to VVAC
... he found a feather cloth and inside the cloth was a large oak leaf-shaped object that was eventually determined to be a nickel-iron meteorite. «cvbugle, Jan 15»
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Meteorites - Rocks from Space
Regmaglyptes may also be formed when a nickel-iron meteorite tumbles as it falls. Here is a piece of Sikhote-Alin, which fell in Siberia in 1947, ... «Santa Barbara Edhat, Jan 15»
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Meteorite madness in an alien landscape
Of course, most people call them meteorites," the 31-year-old joked as he spun a wedding ring made from an iron meteorite on his finger. «Chinadaily USA, Dec 14»
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Introducing the 2015 Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Calendar with …
... calendar dial layout with three apertures and a date pointer, but now with a dial made from a thinly sliced and finished piece of iron meteorite. «Perpetuelle.com, Dec 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Iron meteorite [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/iron-meteorite>. May 2024 ».
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