biotite

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• /ˈbaɪəˌtaɪt/
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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.

25 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: բիոտիտ (biotit) — dark brown mica
• Catalan: biotita — dark brown mica
• Czech: biotit — dark brown mica
• Dutch: biotiet — dark brown mica
• Esperanto: biotito — dark brown mica
• Estonian: biotiit — dark brown mica
• Finnish: biotiitti — dark brown mica
• French: biotite — dark brown mica
• Galician: biotita — dark brown mica
• German: Biotit — dark brown mica
• Icelandic: bíótít — dark brown mica
• Italian: biotite — dark brown mica
• Japanese: 黒雲母 (kurounmo) — dark brown mica
• Norwegian Bokmål: biotitt — dark brown mica
• Norwegian Nynorsk: biotitt — dark brown mica
• Polish: biotyt — dark brown mica
• Portuguese: biotita — dark brown mica
• Romanian: biotit — dark brown mica
• Russian: биотит (biotit) — dark brown mica
• Serbo-Croatian: био̀тӣт — dark brown mica
• Serbo-Croatian: biòtīt — dark brown mica
• Slovak: biotit — dark brown mica
• Slovene: biotít — dark brown mica
• Spanish: biotita — dark brown mica
• Turkish: biyotit — dark brown mica