biotite

Image credit: R. Weller, Cochise College

Uncredited images and diagrams: Scott Brande

biotite

Interactive 3D Model

Explore biotite 3D Model below

Explore/observe features

  • perfect cleavage

  • "book" like form

biotite courtesy of Prof. Dexter Perkins, Univ. of North Dakota

biotite

image credit: R. Weller, Cochise College

biotite chemical formula

biotite: complex chemical formula (click link for details)

(interpreting mineral chemical formulas: atoms, molecules, elements)


non-metallic

not electrically conductive

not magnetic

not reactive