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Title: The American journal of science
Identifier: americanjourna4151903newh (find matches)
Year: 1880 (1880s)
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Subjects: Science
Publisher: New Haven : J. D. & E. S. Dana
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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H. A. Ward—Bath Furnace Meteorite. 317 The drippings broken off in fall, if added, would doubtless make its total weight just 13 lbs. Its specific gravity is 3*48. The stone is covered over its entire surface with a very dark —nearly black—crust. This crust, although absolutely opaque and protective, shows itself at the few fractured spots to be very thin—less than half a millimeter thick. It is dull and matte in surface appearance, with a uniform, fine granulation. This is, however, broken at frequent points by minute pimples,
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interspersed with equally minute angular or slightly lengthened protuberances. None of all of these have an elevation of more than one millimeter. These pimples, where they have been rubbed, show a bright character, and are undoubtedly outside individuals of the minute points of bright iron which are sprinkled somewhat abundantly through the entire stone mass. The inner structure of the stone, as shown in a section, is quite compact and dense, taking a good polish. It is a light gray base, blotched evenly throughout with patches of clove-brown iron oxide. Most of these are cloud-like, in indefinite contour■; but a few, ranging from one to three milli- meters in diameter, are round, and seem to be limited to the decomposition of a single previous iron enclosure. Very few defined chondri are detachable.

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