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phlogopite
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun phlogopite has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
phlogopite, n. [Gr. firelike.].
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. [1913 Webster]
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