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Of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as, meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones.

Meteoric.

stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.

Of or pertaining to aërolites; meteoric; as, aërolitic iron. Booth.

A mass of meteoric iron.

Aurora borealis (, i. e., northern daybreak; popularly called northern lights. A luminous meteoric phenomenon, visible only at night, and supposed to be of electrical origin. This species of light usually appears in streams, ascending toward the zenith from a dusky line or bank, a few degrees above the northern horizon…

A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.

ally enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.

A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.

Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.

r impurities from cast iron, rendering it less brittle, and to some extent malleable. -- Meteoric iron (Chem.), iron forming a large, and often the chief, ingredient of meteorites. It invariably contains a small amount of nickel and cobalt. Cf. Meteorite. -- Pig iron, the form in which cast iron is made at the blast…

A meteoric stone; an aërolite; a meteorite.

steel-gray flexible folia. It contains iron, nickel, and phosphorus, and is found only in meteoric iron.

umbers, apparently diverging from some point in the heavens, such displays being known as meteoric showers, or star showers. These bodies, before encountering the earth, were moving in orbits closely allied to the orbits of comets. See Leonids, Perseids. (b) (Bot.) The American cowslip (Dodecatheon Meadia). See under C…

Native iron protosulphide, FeS. It is known only in meteoric irons, and is usually in imbedded nodular masses of a bronze color.

Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in