biotite

biotite

English

Etymology

Biot +‎ -ite, named by J.F.L. Hausmann in 1847 in honour of the French physicist Jean-Baptiste Biot, who, in 1816, researched the optical properties of mica, discovering many unique properties.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪəˌtaɪt/

Noun

biotite (countable and uncountable, plural biotites)

1. (mineralogy) A dark brown mica; it is a mixed aluminosilicate and fluoride of potassium, magnesium and iron.

Translations

dark brown mica

Armenian: բիոտիտ (hy) (biotit) Catalan: biotita f Czech: biotit m Dutch: biotiet Estonian: biotiit Finnish: biotiitti (fi) French: biotite (fr) f Galician: biotita (gl) f German: Biotit m Icelandic: bíótít n Italian: biotite f Japanese: 黒雲母 (ja) (くろうんも, kurounmo) Norwegian: Bokmål: biotitt m Nynorsk: biotitt m Polish: biotyt m Portuguese: biotita f Romanian: biotit (ro) n Russian: биотит (ru) m (biotit) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: био̀тӣт m Roman: biòtīt (sh) m Slovak: biotit m Slovene: biotít m Spanish: biotita (es) f Turkish: biyotit (tr)

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Biotite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “biotite”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

biotite f (plural biotites)

1. (mineralogy) biotite

Further reading

• “biotite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

biotite f (plural biotiti)

1. (mineralogy) biotite

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