"Granite" is a word in ENGLISH
A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz,
feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red
color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and
therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure.
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An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star-shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, …
Read the complete definitionA variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
Read the complete definitionMica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. …
Read the complete definitionA kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
Read the complete definitionOne of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the elements of written language; hence, …
Read the complete definitionLaminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.
Read the complete definitionThe property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure …
Read the complete definitionMica. See Mica.
Read the complete definitionGlimmer; mica.
Read the complete definitionA crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in …
Read the complete definitionResembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; -- applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and …
Read the complete definitionA crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony.
Read the complete definitionA variety of potash mica containing water. It is less elastic than ordinary muscovite.
Read the complete definitionA popular name for mica, especially when in thin sheets.
Read the complete definitionCharacterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots …
Read the complete definitionCapable of being split into laminae or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin …
Read the complete definitionA species of mica, of a lilac or rose-violet color, containing lithia. It usually occurs in masses consisting of small …
Read the complete definitionAn iron-potash mica, of a raven-black color, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation …
Read the complete definitionA mineral related to the micas, but low in silica and yielding brittle folia with pearly luster.
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