muscovite
See also: Muscovite
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
In 1850 from Muscovy glass + -ite, from the province Muscovy in Russia. Named by James Dwight Dana.[1]
NounEdit
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.
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2009, James S. Monroe; Reed Wicander, The Changing Earth: Exploring Geology and Evolution, 5th edition, Belmont, Calif.: Brooks/Cole, ISBN 978-0-495-55480-6, page 76:
- Do you enjoy the amber glow seen through the isinglass window of a wood stove? […] Muscovite (colorless, white, or pale red or green) mica is also common […]; it was named for Moskva (Moscow), where much of Europe's mica was mined. Isinglass, mentioned above, consists of thin, transparent sheets of muscovite.
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TranslationsEdit
mineral of the mica group
Further readingEdit
- “Muscovite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database[1], 1997–.
- muscovite mindat.org[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016
- ^ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997