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Muscovite has perfect basal cleavage, or book cleavage.
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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.
Muscovite mica will peel off in flat sheets this is an example of the physical characteristic called?
This is called cleavage.
What is a mineral of basal cleavage?
A good example of a mineral with basal cleavage are those from the mica group such as muscovite and biotite
What minerals have only one direction of cleavage?
Mica minerals have only one direction of cleavage. Examples are Muscovite and Biotite.
Which mineral property illustrated by peeling of muscovite mica into thin 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 a cleavage of a mineral?
A good example of a mineral with basal cleavage are those from the mica group such as muscovite and biotite
What is the dominant type of breakage for muscovite mica?
Muscovite mica has perfect cleavage in one direction. It splits into thin sheets.
Muscovite mica will peel off in flat sheets this is an example of the physical characteristic called?
This is called cleavage.
What is a mineral of basal cleavage?
A good example of a mineral with basal cleavage are those from the mica group such as muscovite and biotite
What mineral has one perfect cleavage muscovite and biotite?
Mica or silicate
What minerals have only one direction of cleavage?
Mica minerals have only one direction of cleavage. Examples are Muscovite and Biotite.
Which mineral property illustrated by peeling of muscovite mica into thin sheets?
cleavage
What physical properties distinguish biotite from muscovite?
Both are platy, silicate, mica group minerals with perfect cleavage in one direction.
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.
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.
Tendency to break along smooth flat surfaces?
Many minerals have "cleavage" that causes them to split on flat cleavage planes. Such minerals include micas (muscovite, biotite. phlogopite), calcite, gypsum, and feldspars. Cleavage is the result of the minerals' crystal structure that has weaker chemical bonds aligned in planes.
