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n. -The remains of a meteoroid composed principally of olivine and metallic iron.

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Usage examples (8)
  • Initial observations indicate that it's not a pallasite or" "
  • Railway ties were laid callously across the fine pallasite stones; the line cleaved the former nation of Arbath like a whip-mark.
  • The Brenham fall has the rarest of meteorites, a stony-iron mix called a pallasite.
  • The pallasite fragments of the Brenham meteorite were dug out of the ground and often have significant rust, he noted.
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