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Muscovite mica is primarily broken by fracturing.
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What is the dominant type of breakage for muscovite mica?
Muscovite mica has perfect cleavage in one direction. It splits into thin sheets.
What type of breakage is more common cleavage of fractrue?
cleavage
Dominant Type of Rock for interior plains?
Sedimentary.
Dominant Type of Rock for Arctic Lowlands?
Sedimentary
What is the range for Moh's Hardness scale?
what type of breakage is more common deavage or fracture
What is the dominant type 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 sulfur?
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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 everday things are minerals?
In Russia they made windows out of a type of mineral called Muscovite.
What type of crystal habit does muscovite display?
Muscovite generally displays a micaceous crystal habit, of thin flexible sheets.
What is the crystalline structure of phyllite?
phyllite is a type of metasedimentary rock. The parent rock likely contained clays and/or micas, which have metamorphosed into micas and aligned due to pressure. This shiny surface is produced by the alignment of the minerals.
What type of breakage pattern does an emerald have?
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What type of breakage is more common cleavage of fractrue?
cleavage
What type of breakage is more common clevage or fracture?
frature
What type of erosion is the dominant type of earth?
The most dominant type of erosion on earth is running water.
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 type of mineral has no color no shape no density no breakage and is none visual?
diamond
