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Etymology
In 1850 from Muscovy glass, from the province Muscovy in Russia. Named by James Dwight Dana.<ref>Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997</ref>
Noun
muscovite
#mineralogy a pale brown mineral of the mica group, being a basic potassium aluminosilicate; used as an electrical insulator etc
Translations
Finnish: muskoviitti
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