Margarodite

Quick meaning: Margarodite is a noun meaning (mineralogy, obsolete) A hydrous potash mica related to muscovite.

Meaning

(mineralogy, obsolete) A hydrous potash mica related to muscovite.

Example Sentences

The alumina of the topaz has gone to form muscovite of the variety known as margarodite with less margarite.

Margarodite, as named by Schafhäutl, was the talc-like mica of Mt. Greiner in the Zillerthal (anal. 36); granular to scaly in structure, luster pearly, color grayish white.

This optical peculiarity of the Breezy margarodite distinguishes it from the margarodite of the Leinster granite, in which the plane of the optical axes coincides with the long diagonal of the primary rhomb, joining its acute angles.

Word Forms

• margarodites

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include margarite, margarosanite, margaritasite, polyargite, muscovite, paragonite.

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