Muscovite

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A potassium aluminum silicate mineral, KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2, the most common form of mica, which ranges from colorless or pale yellow to gray and brown, has a pearly luster, and is used as an insulator. noun

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. noun

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.

{noun} a cocktail of vodka, cream or milk, and Starbucks cream liquor. Urban Dictionary

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The word "muscovite" in example sentences

The mica group of minerals includes: biotite, muscovite, lepidolite, and phlogopite. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The two micas used as a commodity are: brown mica or phlogopite which contains iron and magnesium; and the "reddish, green, or white (or clear) mica" or muscovite which contains potassium and aluminum. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Very large sheets or crystals of muscovite form in a pegmatite. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In 1850, James Dwight Dana formally named this mineral muscovite based on the Latin term. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In teaching geology, micas - especially muscovite - makes an impact I can see through it! ❋ ReBecca Foster (2008)

These layers can be seen in muscovite mica specimens because it can be split (mineralogists call this feature cleavage) into very thin, flexible, transparent layers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Muscovite was always a hit with people in my general classes, especially when I wold tell the girls that some of the "minerals" in their makeup were muscovite/micas! ❋ ReBecca Foster (2008)

In the metamorphosed Thunderhead Sandstone it was found that at the staurolite isograd, the boundary between the garnet and staurolite zones, the mineral chlorite disappears from the rocks and muscovite decreases sharply, whereas staurolite appears and biotite becomes more abundant. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It seems to be a true muscovite, and is seldom marred by magnetic markings or crystalline inclusions that would interfere with its industrial use. ❋ Various (N/A)

The proportions of the constituent minerals which form granite, according to Prof. Phillips, are twenty parts of potash feldspar (orthoclase), five parts of quartz, and two parts of potash mica (muscovite), and a survey of Mr. Wilson's quarry exhibits these approximate relations with surprising force. ❋ Various (N/A)

Various mineral localities occur throughout the county, of which some of the most important occur on the shore at Portsoy, as for example the gabbro masses in Portsoy Bay with enstatite, hypersthene and labradorite, the graphic granite with microcline, muscovite and tourmaline at East Head, the chiastolite-schist west of the marble quarry, the mottled serpentine with strings of chrysotile. ❋ Various (N/A)

One thing, however, the prospector may make sure of: he will always find gold more or less intimately associated with silica (Quartz) in one or other of its many forms, just as he will always find cassiterite (oxide of tin) in the neighbourhood of granite containing muscovite (white mica), which so many people will persist in terming talc. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

In the summer of 1885, a remarkably large pocket containing fine crystals of muscovite, with brilliant crystals of rutile implanted on them, was found at the Emerald and Hiddenite Mining Company's works, at Stony Point, ❋ Various (N/A)

M. Bouty returns to the study of mica (muscovite) in the Journal de ❋ Richard Threlfall (N/A)

Mica — A group of minerals, including muscovite or "isinglass" and biotite or black mica. ❋ Unknown (1937)

Important deposits of mica (principally muscovite) are also known in ❋ Unknown (1915)

Approximately three-fifths of this consumption is in the form of mica splittings, most of which are made from muscovite in India and part from amber mica in Canada. ❋ Unknown (1915)

A variety of muscovite, containg nearly four per cent of chromium (chrome mica), is named "Fuchsite" after him. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

-- This material is widely distributed in the State and is a constant constituent of many of the micaceous and other igneous rocks, and in flattened crystals in muscovite and biotite crystals as inclusions. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

It occurs as nitrate in nitre (KNO_ {3}), and as silicate in many minerals, such as orthoclase (or potash-felspar) and muscovite (or potash-mica). ❋ Cornelius Beringer (1886)

I've devised a [bastardized] [White Russian]. Milk, vodka, and Starbucks Cream liquor. Served [chilled] of course. I call it a White Muscovite. ❋ Tsarstepan (2012)

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