The Investigations of Chondritic Meteorites by X-ray Diffraction and Mössbauer Effect Methods

• Authors: A. Ludwig , W. Zarek , E. Popiel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The Mössbauer spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction techniques were used to investigate the mineral and magnetic fractions of two meteorites: carbonaceous chondrite named Allende (CV3) and ordinary chondrite - El Hammami (H5). The investigations of a powder mixture of chondrules and matrix show that the meteorites studied contain iron mainly in the silicates, olivine, and pyroxene. The metallic fractions of the El Hammami meteorite contain the ferromagnetic mineral kamacite (bcc iron-nickel alloy). This phase with cubic symmetry was identified by symmetric Mössbauer spectrum with disturbance in relative line intensities. The results suggest that the Allende meteorite does not contain a pure metallic phase.

Keywords

EN

61.18.Fs

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2001
• Volume: 100
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 761-765

Dates

published

2001-11

received

2001-05-14

Contributors

author

A. Ludwig

• August Chełkowski Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland

author

W. Zarek

• August Chełkowski Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland

author

E. Popiel

• August Chełkowski Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.100.761