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Both are platy, silicate, mica group minerals with perfect cleavage in one direction.
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What two minerals share the common name mica?
Biotite and Muscovite.
What are the soft silicate flakes found in many rocks?
They are most likely muscovite or biotite mica.
Example of mica?
Many types of mica are known: biotite, lepidolite, muscovite, phlogopite, zinnwaldite, clintonite, illite, phengite.
What is the freezing point of biotite?
Biotites comprise a range of different black mica minerals with different chemical composition and physical properties.
What is the mica mineral symbol?
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.
What are the properties of granite?
K-feldspar, Na-feldspar and Quartz Muscovite biotite.
How are the minerals biotite mica and the Muscovite mica different?
Biotite mica contains iron and/or magnesium, but muscovite mica does not.
Which Mineral is flat and flaky?
micas such as muscovite, biotite
What type of minerals are biotite and muscovite?
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.
What mineral has one perfect cleavage muscovite and biotite?
Mica or silicate
What element is present in biotite mica that is not present in muscovite mica?
Iron.
What two minerals share the common name mica?
Biotite and Muscovite.
Is biotite a mineral or non-mineral?
Biotite is definitely a mineral. It's in the same family as muscovite, another mineral in the mica family.
What is the difference between mica and quartz?
Biotite mica contains iron and/or magnesium, but muscovite mica does not.
What is the geologic mean of platy mineral?
Platy minerals are micas(muscovite and biotite) and chlorite
Is mica a renewable resource?
Mica Is Not A Renewable Resource Because Think About When Muscovite Mica And Biotite Mica Go Extinct. Muscovite Mica And Biotite Mica Are Both Types To Make Mica, And If That Goes Extinct Then Mica Will Be Extinct Too.
Mineralisation of schist belt?
Biotite, muscovite, chlorite, talc, garnet, and kyanite are common in schist.
