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Group of phyllosilicate minerals.

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        An all weather, fire-and-forget short and medium-range missile system.

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              Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity.

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                    Transparent white pigment that is used in industrial products, such as white casein wall paint.

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                          Usage of mica in anglès
                          1
                          The red is due to the grinding up of mica and hornblende.
                          Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel
                          2
                          Here, this is the way; and again he opened a mica door.
                          The Adventures of Prince Lazybones, and Other Stories
                          3
                          The same may be said of all the potash feldspars and mica.
                          Creative Chemistry: Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Ch...
                          4
                          The aluminous minerals contained in granite rocks are feldspar, mica, and hornblende.
                          Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel
                          5
                          He hurtled past, Scout so close her lather splattered the mica visor.
                          Karen Memory
                          6
                          The mica-like scales of the spidery tilda glistened over the leafless branches.
                          Nova
                          7
                          She broke off and pointed at the mica-shiny stones on the boulder.
                          The waste lands
                          8
                          Sunlight struck the speck of its windshield like a flake of mica.
                          Desert places: a novel of terror
                          9
                          There was another dark line there, flaked with the mica-specks of Dragonscale.
                          The Fireman
                          10
                          Thus he formed, for instance, pumice-stone, feldspar, mica, iron pyrites, &c. artificially.
                          Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and Its Relation to Commerce, Phy...
                          11
                          The three planes gleamed like mica in the intense blue of the sky.
                          One Man's Initiation—1917
                          12
                          Another form is mica glitter, which is increasingly used in cosmetics.
                          The Guardian
                          13
                          Granite.-Succeedsthe serpentine, of light colour; feldspar decomposed; mica, glittering and silvery white.
                          Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume...
                          14
                          Now this mica could not have been formed in the sand.
                          Town Geology
                          15
                          Siddique said around 100 mica dumps had been identified for auction.
                          Reuters
                          16
                          The mica and glass owe their blackness to the carbon diffused through them.
                          Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
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