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Both are platy, silicate, mica group minerals with perfect cleavage in one direction.

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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.


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