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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A yellow to dark brown mica, K(Mg,Fe)3AlSi3O10(OH)2, used in insulation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of magnesia mica (see
mica , 1) commonly occurring in crystalline limestone and in serpentine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronze-red or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See
mica .
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- noun mineralogy A
mica mineral with thechemical formula K Mg 3Al Si 3O 10(F ,OH )2, a basicpotassium magnesium aluminosilicate , used as aninsulator .
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- noun a brown form of mica consisting of hydrous silicate of potassium and magnesium and aluminum
Etymologies
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The name phlogopite, named by F.A. Breithaupt in 1841, comes from the Greek word phologopos meaning fiery in reference to the reddish color seen on some specimens of this mica.
Mica 2008
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Vermiculite is formed by the alteration and/or weathering of the minerals biotite and phlogopite.
Vermiculite 2008
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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.
Mica 2008
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Mica is also used as segment plates between copper commutator sections to insulate copper from the steel; phlogopite mica is used because it wears at the same rate as the copper segments.
Mica 2008
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The mica group of minerals includes: biotite, muscovite, lepidolite, and phlogopite.
Vermiculite 2008
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The breakdown of biotite and phlogopite creates vermiculite.
Vermiculite 2008
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Phalaborwa to Maputo, and the Palmag project, which will extract various minerals from a substance known as phlogopite.
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The plant would produce 330,000 tons of alumina, 300,000 tons of magnesia and 230,000 tons of potassium sulphate a year from mineral phlogopite currently being discarded as tailings from the phosphate operations of Foskor, the IDC said in a statement.
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The phlogopite mica of Canada occurs in pyroxenite dikes.
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fbharjo commented on the word phlogopite
phlogopite fire in the eyes, literally
January 16, 2007