muscovite
See also: Muscovite
English
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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.
- 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.
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Translations
mineral of the mica group
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Further reading
- David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Muscovite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “muscovite”, in Mindat.org, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.
- Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mys.kɔ.vit/
Audio (file)
Noun
muscovite f (plural muscovites)
- (mineralogy) muscovite
Descendants
- → Romanian: muscovit
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mu.skoˈvi.te/
- Rhymes: -ite
- Hyphenation: mu‧sco‧vì‧te
Noun
muscovite f (plural muscoviti)
- (mineralogy) muscovite