فلوگپیت
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Phlogopite is a yellow, greenish, or reddish-brown member of the mica family of phyllosilicates. It is also known as magnesium mica.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Phlogopite
- Mineral.category
- Phyllosilicate minerals
- Mineral.group
- Mica group, trioctahedral mica group, biotite subgroup
- Mineral.boxbgcolor
- afa362
- Mineral.boxtextcolor
- fff
- Mineral.image
- Phlogopite 3.JPG
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.formula
- KMg3(AlSi3O10)(F,OH)2
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Phl
- Mineral.strunz
- 9.EC.20
- Mineral.system
- Monoclinic
- Mineral.class
- Prismatic (2/m) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- C2/m
- Mineral.color
- Brown, brownish red, dark brown, yellow, yellowish brown, green, white and gray
- Mineral.habit
- Tabular, scaly masses, rarely perfect phenocryst tablets
- Mineral.twinning
- Composition twinning
- Mineral.cleavage
- Perfect basal (001)
- Mineral.fracture
- None
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- mica
- Image
- PhlogopiteMonteSommaIII.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 9.EC.20
- Commons category
- Phlogopite
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 9.EC.20
- streak color
- white
- crystal system
- monoclinic crystal system
- Mohs' hardness
- 2.5
- density
- 2.815
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Phl
- chemical formula
- KMg₃(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VIII/E.05b
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