Minerals

🪨Sheet Silicates

Phyllosilicates

Silicates with silicon-oxygen tetrahedra linked into flat sheets. This gives them their characteristic platy, flaky crystal habit. Includes micas, clays, talc, and serpentine.

Source: Wikipedia

💡Talc is the softest known mineral (1 on Mohs scale). It's the main ingredient in baby powder.

11 minerals

🪨 muscovite 🪨 biotite 🪨 lepidolite 🪨 phlogopite 🪨 serpentine 🟢 chrysotile 🪨 kaolinite 🪨 montmorillonite 🪨 talc 🪨 chlorite 🪨 prehnite

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