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Categories: Articles with short description, Dielectrics, Phyllosilicates, Mica group

mica isinglass brittle mica built-up mica fluorophlogopite

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 WordNet 3.0

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Micas are a group of silicate minerals whose outstanding physical characteristic is that individual mica crystals can easily be split into extremely thin elastic plates. Wikipedia

Group of sheet silicate minerals. Wikipedia Disambiguation

Group of phyllosilicate minerals Wikidata

A thin, transparent sheet of mica (probably from its similarity to true isinglass). Wiktionary

Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. Wiktionary

Hydrous aluminosilicate minerals. Wiktionary (translation)

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mineral

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