15 Facts About Mica

Mica is common in igneous and metamorphic rock and is occasionally found as small flakes in sedimentary rock.

Mica is widely distributed and occurs in igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary regimes.

Mica's value is based on its unique physical properties: the crystalline structure of mica forms layers that can be split or delaminated into thin sheets usually causing foliation in rocks.

Mica is stable when exposed to electricity, light, moisture, and extreme temperatures.

Mica is used in plastic automobile fascia and fenders as a reinforcing material, providing improved mechanical properties and increased dimensional stability, stiffness, and strength.

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Mica-reinforced plastics have high-heat dimensional stability, reduced warpage, and the best surface properties of any filled plastic composite.

Mica is used in decorative coatings on wallpaper, concrete, stucco, and tile surfaces.

Mica is added to latex balloons to provide a colored shiny surface.

Mica insulation is used in high-temperature and fire-resistant power cables in aluminium plants, blast furnaces, critical wiring circuits, heaters and boilers, lumber kilns, metal smelters, and tanks and furnace wiring.

Mica is birefringent and is therefore commonly used to make quarter and half wave plates.

Mica is mechanically stable in micrometer-thin sheets which are relatively transparent to radiation while being impervious to most gases.

Mica'set mica is used principally in the electronic and electrical industries.

Mica was known to ancient Indian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Chinese civilizations, as well as the Aztec civilization of the New World.

Mica flakes are used in Pakistan to embellish women's summer clothes, especially dupattas .

Mica powder is used as a decoration in traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking, as when applied to wet ink with gelatin as thickener using kirazuri technique and allowed to dry, it sparkles and reflects light.