Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A yellow to dark brown mica, K(Mg,Fe)3AlSi3O10(OH)2, used in insulation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of magnesia mica (see mica, 1) commonly occurring in crystalline limestone and in serpentine. It has often a copper-like color and pearly luster; chemically it is usually characterized by the presence of a small percentage of fluorin.
Wiktionary
- n. mineralogy A mica mineral with the chemical formula KMg3AlSi3O10(F,OH)2, a basic potassium magnesium aluminosilicate, used as an insulator.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronze-red or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See mica.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a brown form of mica consisting of hydrous silicate of potassium and magnesium and aluminum
Etymologies
- From German Phlogopit, from Ancient Greek ϕλογωπός ("fiery-looking") + -ite. (Wiktionary)
- Greek phlogōpos, fiery-looking (phlox, phlog-, flame; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots + ōps, ōp-, eye, face; see okw- in Indo-European roots) + -ite1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The name phlogopite, named by F.A. Breithaupt in 1841, comes from the Greek word phologopos meaning fiery in reference to the reddish color seen on some specimens of this mica.”
“Vermiculite is formed by the alteration and/or weathering of the minerals biotite and phlogopite.”
“The breakdown of biotite and phlogopite creates vermiculite.”
“The two micas used as a commodity are: brown mica or phlogopite which contains iron and magnesium; and the "reddish, green, or white (or clear) mica" or muscovite which contains potassium and aluminum.”
“Mica is also used as segment plates between copper commutator sections to insulate copper from the steel; phlogopite mica is used because it wears at the same rate as the copper segments.”
“The mica group of minerals includes: biotite, muscovite, lepidolite, and phlogopite.”
“Phalaborwa to Maputo, and the Palmag project, which will extract various minerals from a substance known as phlogopite.”
“The plant would produce 330,000 tons of alumina, 300,000 tons of magnesia and 230,000 tons of potassium sulphate a year from mineral phlogopite currently being discarded as tailings from the phosphate operations of Foskor, the IDC said in a statement.”
“The phlogopite mica of Canada occurs in pyroxenite dikes.”
“Pet cheap plymouth hotels are disenchanted to refrigeration the medroxyprogesterone for pet phlogopite as the ingratitude of noncompliant for a pet are piggyback agamogenetic than june padding.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘phlogopite’.
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
galkhaite, xanthoconite, pyrostilpnite, polybasite, pyrargyrite, djurleite, digenite, covellite, chalcocite, cerargirite, acanthite, aeschynite and 2608 more...
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Marbles
From the GNU Webster's 1913:
"n. A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white ...marble, marbles, lost my marbles, Elgin Marbles, Yule marble, Verona red marble, Carrara marble, Pentelican marble, Parian marble, bardiglio, lumachelle, fire-marble and 117 more...
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Pogo
Rowrbrazzle, Cherchez la femme, Churchy LaFemme, Howland Owl, Miz Mamzelle Hepz..., The Okefenokee Star, Pogo the Possum, Albert the Alligator, Too hoomit, peaner butter, partickler fool, fried parsnips an... and 11 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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fbharjo phlogopite fire in the eyes, literally Jan 16, 2007