Muscovite is a silicate mineral.
aluminum and potassium
Muscovite has perfect basal cleavage, or book cleavage.
Muscovite is used in both heat and electrical insulation applications.
Muscovite mica is primarily broken by fracturing.
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Muscovite is a sheet silicate
Potassium aluminum silicate hydroxide fluoride.
Quartz, Feldspar, Muscovite, Biotite are among most common silicate minerals.
Mica or silicate
aluminum and potassium
They are most likely muscovite or biotite mica.
Mica is a group of sheet silicate minerals (e.x of micas : Biotite, muscovite)
Both are platy, silicate, mica group minerals with perfect cleavage in one direction.
Generally referred to as micaceous minerals, biotite and muscovite are silicate minerals having perfect basal cleavage. They both contain most of the same elements, just in different quantities. However, biotite is soluble in sulfuric acid and has iron and magnesium in it, where muscovite does not. They can be found in all types of rock.
Muscovite (clear) and Biotite (black) are the commonest mica forms. Fuchsite (green) is an unusual mica containing chromium. Please see the related link below for a listing of the mica group of minerals.
All that glitters is not muscovite.
A Muscovite is a person who lives in Moscow, Russia.