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Mica
MI'CA, n. [L. mica, a grain or particle; mico, to shine.] A mineral of a foliated structure, consisting of thin flexible lamels or scales, having a shining surface. The scales are sometimes parallel, sometimes interwoven, sometimes wavy or undulated, sometimes representing filaments. It is called also talck, glimmer, muscovy-glass, and glist.
Jameson subdivides mica into ten subspecies, viz. mica, pinite, lepidolite,chlorite, green earth, talck, nacrite, potstone, steatite and figure stone.
mica appears in definitions for these words:
Adamantine Basaltine Before Breaker Caryophylloid Catsilver Cavolinite Come Divine Eurite Felsite Glimmer Glist Gneiss Granit Grenatite Heir Iodin Isinglass-stone Justly Lepidolite Leuthrite Lie Light Mica Micaceous Mouth Muscovy-glass Pargasite Pegmatite Pinite Pluck Psammite Retinite Roll Shorlite Solitarily Steatite Talc Teach Thing Trachyte Wail Whitestone
Adamantine Basaltine Before Breaker Caryophylloid Catsilver Cavolinite Come Divine Eurite Felsite Glimmer Glist Gneiss Granit Grenatite Heir Iodin Isinglass-stone Justly Lepidolite Leuthrite Lie Light Mica Micaceous Mouth Muscovy-glass Pargasite Pegmatite Pinite Pluck Psammite Retinite Roll Shorlite Solitarily Steatite Talc Teach Thing Trachyte Wail Whitestone
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