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What is the dominant of breakage for Muscovite Mica?
Muscovite mica has perfect cleavage in one direction. It splits into thin sheets.
What do mica and graphite have in common?
both break in one preferential direction
Does mica split into thin flat sheets?
No
What is atoms in a crystal in mica are layered in?
There measure in sheets
Why Mica peels apart in parallel sheets?
Because it is nervous
Why does mica break evenly along flat sheets?
Mica breaks into sheets because of its unique crystal structure. Just as sand or salt is composed of granules, mica is composed of molecular sheets.
Mica has one direction of what so it breaks into sheets?
Cleavage
Mica has one direction of so it breaks into sheets?
cleavage
Mica has one direction of blank so it breaks into sheets?
Cleavage
What is the dominant of breakage for Muscovite Mica?
Muscovite mica has perfect cleavage in one direction. It splits into thin sheets.
What is the dominant type of breakage for muscovite mica?
Muscovite mica has perfect cleavage in one direction. It splits into thin sheets.
Which silicate minerals separate into sheets when they break?
The mica group of silicate minerals cleave into thin sheets. O REALLY!!!!!!
What do mica and graphite have in common?
both break in one preferential direction
What is the relationship between the way in which silicon-oxygen tetrahedra bond in micas and the characteristic cleavage of micas?
The silicon-oxygen tetrahedral bonds that make up mica form sheets that lay on top of each other and are easily separated, as sheets, which gives mica one direction of cleavage
What is a shiny mineral that occurs in sheets?
Its Mica
Does mica split into thin flat sheets?
No
How does the cleavage of feldspar differ from the cleavage of mica?
Biotite (black mica) and muscovite (white mica) are both minerals that have perfect basal cleavage--one direction. It cleaves into thin sheets. Feldspars (albite, oligoclase, andesine, labradorite, bytownite, anorthite) have good cleavage in two directions at nearly right angles, poor in a third direction.
