Definitions for biotites

biotites bi·o·tite

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

Biotites is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in biotites (beiiostt).

Definitions for biotites

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 biotites

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

Examples for biotites

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for biotites
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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