Ovifak

It was called the Ovifak meteorite, and large pieces of the iron were conveyed to our museums.

The Story of the Heavens 1876

Moissan also made a methodical study of graphite, and he showed - a fact of great interest - that graphite becomes what is known as "swelling" when it is extracted from a metal solution prepared in an electric furnace, since a certain number of native irons, among them the iron found by Nordenskjöld at Ovifak in Greenland, as well as the diamond-bearing strata of the Cape contain graphite in the swelling form.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1910 - Presentation Speech 1966

If the Ovifak iron be really associated with the basalt, we have a proof that the iron-nickel alloy is indeed a terrestrial substance, found deep in the interior of the earth, and associated with volcanic phenomena.

The Story of the Heavens 1876

Those who believe in the meteoric origin of the Ovifak iron are constrained to admit that shortly after the eruption of the basalt, and while it was still soft, this stupendous iron meteorite of gigantic mass and bulk happened to fall into this particular soft bed.

The Story of the Heavens 1876

There is, for instance, in the national collection a most interesting exhibit of the Ovifak substance.

The Story of the Heavens 1876