widmanstatten figures Meaning, Definition & Usage

Wid"man*stät`ten fig"ures (Also<

• Widmanstatten figures
• Widmanstätten figures

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Definitions

1. (Min.) Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.