Noun:

अबरख़, अबरक़, अभ्रक,

mica's Usage Examples:

Large beds of mica are found in the east.

In the Inikurti mine, Nellore, "books" of mica measuring 10 ft.

These cracks coincide with planes of easy separation or of gliding in the crystal; they are especially useful in helping to determine the crystallographic orientation of a cleavage flake of mica when crystal faces are absent.

mica, talc, chlorite, haematite), or in long blades or fibres (anthophyllite, tremolite, actinolite, tourmaline), and, when these have a well marked parallel arrangement in definite bands or folia, the rock will break far more easily along the bands than across them.

Deposits of copper, tin, iron and tungsten have been discovered, and a variety of other mineral products (graphite, mica, spodumene, coal, petroleum, 'c.).

The phyllites (q.v.) form a middle term between this group and the slates; they consist usually of quartz, white mica and chlorite, and have much of the foliation and schistosity of the mica-schists.

For the more delicate species, such as the Callithamnia and Ectocarpi, it is an excellent plan to place a small fruiting fragment, carefully floated out in water, on a slip of mica of the size of an ordinary microscopical slide, and allow it to dry.

In 1870 North Carolina's mica mines were reopened, and they produce the best grade of sheet mica for glazing and a large percentage of the country's yield of this mineral.

Mica is mined near Mrogoro.

The mica mined in India is practically all muscovite.

Synonyms:

muscovite, zinnwaldite, phlogopite, isinglass, translucent substance, mineral, biotite, paragonite, lepidolite, transparent substance,

Antonyms:

organic,