"muscovite" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: muscovites [plural]
Etymology: In 1850 from Muscovy glass + -ite, from the province Muscovy in Russia. Named by James Dwight Dana. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en||ite}} + -ite Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} 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. Wikipedia link: muscovite Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Minerals Translations (mineral of the mica group): moscovita [feminine] (Catalan), muscoviet (Dutch), muskovito (Esperanto), muskoviitti (Finnish), muscovite [feminine] (French), Muskovit [masculine] (German), muszkovit (Hungarian), muscovite [feminine] (Italian), moscovita [feminine] (Spanish), muscovita [feminine] (Spanish), muskovit [common-gender] (Swedish), muskobita (Tagalog)

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