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The aim of our studies was to check the usefulness of Mössbauer spectroscopy for preliminary classification of ordinary chondrites. Mössbauer spectra of 50 samples of ordinary chondrites (type LL, L and H) obtained at room temperature were analyzed. 35 Mössbauer spectra were obtained in our laboratory, the other spectra were taken from the literature. The conclusion of our study was, that the most useful way for the preliminary classification of the ordinary chondrites is the application of two types of plots based on the data obtained by Mössbauer spectroscopy. One type of these plots is a linear plot which was used for the identification of the samples which are unrepresentative. The second type of these plots is a plot of “spectral area of the olivine” vs “spectral area of the metallic phase”. This last one was used for the identification of two unknown meteorites.
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Sue Forder took part in the initial phase of this investigation—thank you Sue.
The samples of meteorites for this study were generously supplied by Marcin Cimała, Ansgar Greshake, Mike Gilmer, Tomasz Jakubowski, Kazimierz Mazurek, Jarosław Morys, Krzysztof Socha, Robert Verish, Łukasz Karwowski and Jan Woreczko.
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This article is part of the Topical Collection on Proceedings of the 3rd Mediterranean Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (MECAME 2017), Jerusalem, Israel, 5–7 June 2017 Edited by Mira Ristic, Stjepko Krehula, Israel Nowik and Israel Felner
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Galazka-Friedman, J., Woźniak, M., Duda, P. et al. Mössbauer spectroscopy—a useful method for classification of meteorites?. Hyperfine Interact 238, 67 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-017-1439-1
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