mica

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    A shiny, variously colored, often transparent mineral commonly found as flakes or even sheets in granite and other sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.

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    "Mica on a concrete picnic table, August 6, 2009" by Raquel Baranow is licensed under CC BY.

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    Encyclopædia Britannica
         N.d.   Mica. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/379747/mica, accessed August
             22, 2014.