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muscovite

DEFINITIONS OF: muscovite

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n a colorless or pale brown mica with potassium

Types:
damourite
a variety of muscovite
Type of:
isinglass, mica
any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity
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