Both are platy, silicate, mica group minerals with perfect cleavage in one direction.
Biotite and Muscovite.
Muscovite mica is generally less mafic and less dense than biotite mica. Muscovite is a potassium aluminum silicate, while biotite contains iron and magnesium, giving it a more mafic composition. As a result, biotite is denser than muscovite, which typically has a lower specific gravity due to its higher aluminum and silicon content.
Biotites comprise a range of different black mica minerals with different chemical composition and physical properties.
The soft silicate flakes found in many rocks are likely to be mica minerals, such as muscovite or biotite. These minerals have a layered structure that allows them to break into thin flakes or sheets easily. Mica minerals are common in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks.
no,biotite is not attracted to magetic forces (its not attracted to magnet)
K-feldspar, Na-feldspar and Quartz Muscovite biotite.
Biotite mica contains iron and/or magnesium, but muscovite mica does not.
Iron is present in biotite mica but not in muscovite mica.
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.
Mica or silicate
Biotite and Muscovite.
Platy minerals are micas(muscovite and biotite) and chlorite
Biotite, muscovite, chlorite, talc, garnet, and kyanite are common in schist.
Mica is a group of sheet silicate minerals (e.x of micas : Biotite, muscovite)
Biotite is definitely a mineral. It's in the same family as muscovite, another mineral in the mica family.
Quartz, Feldspar, Muscovite, Biotite are among most common silicate minerals.
A good example of a mineral with basal cleavage are those from the mica group such as muscovite and biotite