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IN a recent communication1, Prof. E. A. Owen advances a theory to account for the Widmanstätten figures in meteorites. He suggests that the meteorite is heated to a high temperature in its passage through the earth's atmosphere and is then suddenly, cooled on coming to rest in the earth and that in consequence a distorted body-centred lattice, in metastable equilibrium at ordinary temperatures, is produced. He supposes further that the Widmanstätten figures grow by “prolonged annealing” at ordinary temperatures in the earth.
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SMITH, S., YOUNG, J. Formation of Widmanstätten Figures in Meteorites. Nature 142, 1162 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421162a0
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