Definitions for biotite

biotite bi·o·tite

Spelling: [bahy-uh-tahyt]
IPA: /ˈbaɪ əˌtaɪt/

Biotite is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in biotite (beiiott).

Definitions for biotite

noun

  1. a very common mineral of the mica group, occurring in black, dark-brown, or dark-green sheets and flakes: an important constituent of igneous and metamorphic rocks.

Origin of biotite

1860-65; named after J. B. Biot (1774-1862), French mineralogist and mathematician; see -ite1

Examples for biotite

biotite and all ferromagnesian minerals rarely appear in them, and never are in considerable amount.

biotite occurs in some of these rocks, and melanite also is present.

The biotite is brown; the hornblende brown or greenish brown; the augite usually green.

The minerals at contact are quartz, biotite, magnetite and hornblende.

The dark matrix consists of biotite, aegirine-augite and melanite.

There is some sericite present, also magnetite, resulting from the decomposition of the biotite.

We pushed the ship against a small banded berg, from which Wordie secured several large lumps of biotite granite.

In other minerals the measurements are not quite the same as in biotite.

In other cases the spheroids are simply dark rounded lumps of biotite, in fine scales.

They are of trachytic appearance, containing phenocysts of sanidine, leucite, augite and biotite.

Word Value for biotite
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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