Widmanstätten pattern

English

Alternative forms

• Widmanstaetten pattern

Etymology

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

Noun

Widmanstätten pattern (plural Widmanstätten patterns)

1. (mineralogy) Any of certain patterns appearing on etched meteoric iron.

Synonyms

• Widmanstätten figure