English Explanatory Dictionary

Widmanstätten pattern

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of certain patterns appearing on etched meteoric iron.

Word forms

Widmanstätten pattern Widmanstätten patterns Widmanstaetten pattern

Etymology

Named in 1808 after Count Alois von Beckh Widmanstätten, the director of the Imperial Porcelain works in Vienna.

Synonyms

Widmanstätten figure
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