Widmanstatten figures

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 4:25:15

Wid"man*stat`ten fig"ures (?). Min.

Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstatten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.

 

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