Widmanstätten pattern
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Etymology[edit]
Named in 1808 after Count Alois von Beckh Widmanstätten, the director of the Imperial Porcelain works in Vienna.
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Widmanstätten pattern (plural Widmanstätten patterns)
- (mineralogy) Any of certain patterns appearing on etched meteoric iron.