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THE structure and constitution of the native iron of Ovifak, Disco Island, West Green land, have been the subject of controversy in the past, and in particular, uncertainty exists as to whether it does or does not possess the Widman-statten structure which is characteristic of meteoric the maximum percentage of the different elements reported in the analyses of the iron which have been carried out by numerous analysts (cf. Mellor, “In organic and Theoretical Chemistry”, vol. 12, p. 522) while the figures in the third line represent the average of 318 analyses of meteoric iron calculated iron. By the kindness of Dr. L. J. Spencer, I have recently been enabled to investigate a sample which is contained in the collection of minerals in the Natural History Museum.
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Carpenter, H. Native Iron from West Greenland. Nature 136, 152–153 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136152a0
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