muscovite

See also: Muscovite

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EnglishEdit

Muscovite

EtymologyEdit

In 1850 from Muscovy glass +‎ -ite, from the province Muscovy in Russia. Named by James Dwight Dana.

NounEdit

muscovite (countable and uncountable, plural muscovites)

1. (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.
   • 2009, James S. Monroe; Reed Wicander, The Changing Earth: Exploring Geology and Evolution, 5th edition, Belmont, Calif.: Brooks/Cole, →ISBN, 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.

TranslationsEdit

mineral of the mica group

• Catalan: moscovita f
• Finnish: muskoviitti (fi)
• Spanish: moscovita (es) f, muscovita f

• Swedish: muskovit (sv) c
• Tagalog: muskobita

Further readingEdit

• “Muscovite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database^[1], 1997–.
• muscovite mindat.org‎^[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016