perryite

{{Short description|Mineral found in meteorites}}

{{Infobox mineral|name=Perryite|image=Perryite.jpg|formula=(Ni,Fe)8(Si,P)3|IMAsymbol=PRY|color="Cream-yellow"{{Citation |title=Perryite (Ni, Fe)8(Si, P)3 |url=https://rruff.info/doclib/hom/perryite.pdf |publisher= Mineral Data Publishing}}|tenacity=Ductile}}

Perryite is a nickel silicide mineral. It is found in extremely silicon-rich meteorites. The type material is housed at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. It was first found in Horse Creek and described in 1963 by Fredriksson and Wickman.{{Cite journal |last=Reed |first=SJB |date=6 June 1968 |title=Perryite in the Kota-Kota and South Oman enstatite chondrites |url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=9727b2bd4e25844836dc5d332e0299a0d68f87cb |journal=Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society |volume=36 |issue=282 |pages=850–854 |doi=10.1180/minmag.1968.036.282.13|bibcode=1968MinM...36..850R }} It was named after Stuart Hoffman Perry, an American meteorite collector. The mineral is typically found intermixed with troilite, an iron sulfide. It is a minor constituent of metal enstatite chondrite meteorites.{{Cite journal |last1=Britvin |first1=Sergey N. |last2=Krivovichev |first2=Sergey V. |last3=Vereshchagin |first3=Oleg S. |last4=Vlasenko |first4=Natalia S. |last5=Shilovskikh |first5=Vladimir V. |last6=Krzhizhanovskaya |first6=Maria G. |last7=Lozhkin |first7=Maksim S. |last8=Obolonskaya |first8=Edita V. |last9=Kopylova |first9=Yulia O. |display-authors=2 |date=2021-12-29 |title=Perryite, (Ni,Fe)16PSi5, from the Mount Egerton aubrite: the first natural P-Si-ordered phosphide-silicide |url=http://www.jgeosci.org/content/jgeosci.331 |journal=Journal of Geosciences |volume=66 |issue=4 |pages=189–198 |doi=10.3190/jgeosci.331 |s2cid=247216396 |issn=1802-6222|doi-access=free }}