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Phlogopite
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
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.