biotite

English

Etymology

From Biot +‎ -ite, named by J.F.L. Hausmann in 1847 in honour of the French physicist Jean-Baptiste Biot, who, in 1816, researched the optical properties of mica, discovering many unique properties.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪəˌtaɪt/

Noun

biotite (countable and uncountable, plural biotites)

1. (mineralogy) A dark brown mica; it is a mixed aluminosilicate and fluoride of potassium, magnesium and iron.

Derived terms

• biopyribole
• biotitic
• biotitize
• hydrobiotite

 

Translations

dark brown mica

• Armenian: բիոտիտ (hy) (biotit)
• Catalan: biotita f
• Czech: biotit m
• Dutch: biotiet
• Esperanto: biotito
• Estonian: biotiit
• Finnish: biotiitti (fi)
• French: biotite (fr) f
• Galician: biotita (gl) f
• German: Biotit m
• Icelandic: bíótít n
• Italian: biotite f
• Japanese: 黒雲母 (ja) (くろうんも, kurounmo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: biotitt m

  Nynorsk: biotitt m

• Polish: biotyt m
• Portuguese: biotita f
• Romanian: biotit (ro) n
• Russian: биотит (ru) m (biotit)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: био̀тӣт m

  Roman: biòtīt (sh) m

• Slovak: biotit m
• Slovene: biotít m
• Spanish: biotita (es) f
• Turkish: biyotit (tr)

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Biotite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “biotite”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

biotite f (plural biotites)

1. (mineralogy) biotite

Further reading

• “biotite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

biotite f (plural biotiti)

1. (mineralogy) biotite

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