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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Finely divided particles of reduced iron, mica and lead minerals can all act as low temperature fluxes.
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How great the effect of the interfaces may be is shown by a famous experiment of Professor Orowan's with mica .
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In mica , the bonds along the sheets of the structure maintain themselves while the weaker bonds between sheets allow bending.
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It was a telltale sign that water was seeping through the canyon walls, softening the mica shale and conglomerate abutment.
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The commonest of these are asbestos and mica , which is why they have their peculiar and useful properties.
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The less dark rocks are dominated by biotite mica and amphibole, and darker, more mafic rocks by pyroxene and olivine.
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They consist mostly of quartz and feldspars, with a little mica or amphibole.
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Warriors in full armour paraded in the colossal hangar, its walls plated with slabs of heat-resistant mica .