Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Phlogopite

Phlogopite , noun

[Greek flogwpo`s firelike.]

(Mineralogy) A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronze-red or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica.