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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of mica, analogous to muscovite in composition, but containing sodium in place of potassium: it is characteristic of the paragonite-schist of the Alps.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A kind of mica related to muscovite, but containing soda instead of potash. It is characteristic of the paragonite schist of the Alps.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
mineral related tomuscovite .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a colorless or pale brown mica with sodium
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