Definitions | Muscovite |
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- An inhabitant or a resident of Moscow
Translations: - French: moscovite
- German: Moskowit
- Italian: moscovita
- Portuguese: moscovita
- Spanish: moscovita
Etymology: Muscovy, Muscov(y) + -ite
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| muscovite |
| noun - (mineralogy) a pale brown mineral of the mica group, being a basic potassium aluminosilicate; used as an electrical insulator etc
Translations: 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>
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