With regards to meteorites, what did Biot help to confirm?
Their composition
Their speed
Their size
Their reality
Answer
Biot was a French physicist who helped to confirm the reality of meteorites. In 1803, he reported on the first observed meteorite fall in France, and he later conducted experiments to show that meteorites are composed of extraterrestrial material.
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