muscovite
See also Muscovite
English
Muscovite
Etymology
In 1850 from Muscovy glass + -ite, from the province Muscovy in Russia. Named by James Dwight Dana.[1]
Noun
muscovite (countable and uncountable; plural muscovites)
- (mineralogy) A pale brown mineral of the mica group, being a basic potassium aluminosilicate with the chemical formula KAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH,F)2; used as an electrical insulator etc.
Translations
mineral of the mica group
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References
- ^ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997