mica
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- noun
- /ˈmaɪkə/
- Specialized
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mica
- The parking lot glinted with mica chips, car hoods, and radio antennas.
- mica industry
- mica factory
- mineral mica
I knew how to build a wilderness camp in South Africa using mica and how it would not conduct the heat.
- I knew how to build a wilderness camp in South Africa using mica and how it would not conduct the heat.
- The skin that's really pretty, has a little bit of mica in there, like a little bit of glimmer, but it's like this nice kind of oil.
Examples
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The parallel ridges of the White Mountains, composed primarily of granite and mica-slate, were oriented roughly north-north-east and south-south-west.
Academic text (2018) -
Mica is atomically smooth, and so two mica surfaces can be in very close contact.
Academic text (1999) -
Here, take this strip of mica.
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There's an old mica mine on the other side of the property.
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The target was a sheet of mica coated with lithium.
Academic text (2012) -
The history of unsuccessful efforts to unionize the mica industry may be viewed, at least partially, in this light.
Academic text (1992) -
A terracotta portrait was burnished to a luminous sheen that was heightened by mica dust in the clay.
Academic text (1990) -
Lush branches were moving black shapes along the roadside, and the mica-flecked pavement glittered in the sweep of my headlights.
Fiction book (1990) -
The artists challenged each other to work with mica, a material new to both.
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Flecks of natural mica make the dirt paths sparkle in the sun.
Synonyms
A thin clear sheet of mineral used to stop electricity passing
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mica comes from the old Latin word mica, meaning 'crumb', and from micare, meaning 'to shine'. So mica literally suggests 'small shiny pieces', which fits the thin, glittering sheets of mineral used as heatproof and insulating material.