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English: Canyon Diablo meteorite

Identifier: scienceguide1630amer (find matches)
Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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arsegranular texture, the grains being bounded by almost definite planessuggesting crystals. A polished and etched surface shows rather broadWidmanstatten lines. Chemical analysis shows that the meteoritecontains about 91.55 per cent iron, S.09 per cent nickel and a smallamount of cobalt, phosphorus and sulphur. CAN VOX DIABLO. (Siderite.) Canyon Diablo is a siderite which is popularly famous chiefly fromthe fact that it contains diamonds. This gem stone has been definitelyproven to occur in only two meteorites, the other being a Russian fall,although many masses arc known to contain carbon in the form of a soft HOVEY. THE FOYER METEORITES 2().) Moissan dissolved a fragment of Canyon Diablo weighing
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canyon DiabloWeight, ins? pounds. Diamonds have beeD found in specimens of thia fall. several pounds and obtained not only recognizable crystals of thediamond, I>ur also crystals of a mineral corresponding exactly in com-position to the extremely hard artificial silicide of carbon CSia knowna- carborundum. This new mineral ha- been named moissanite, andthis is the first time that it has been found in nature Canyon Diablo was found in L891 at and near Coon Butte, Arizona,iii the vicinity of the town of Canvon Diablo. The original size of the 30 AM ERICA X MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS mass is not known, but thousands of fragments have been collected,varying in weight from a fraction of an ounce up to 1,087 pounds.More than 16 tons of this material are said to have been found withinthe radius of 2\ miles of Coon Butte. Coon Butte is a conical hill risingfrom 130 to 160 feet above the surrounding plain and containing a crater-like hollow about three-quarters of a mile in greatest diameter and

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no.16-30
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  • bookid:scienceguide1630amer
  • bookyear:1901
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York___The_Museum
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:IMLS___LSTA___METRO
  • bookleafnumber:545
  • bookcollection:americanmuseumnaturalhistory
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
  • bookcollection:americana
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