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How is mica used?

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Mica is added to paint and makeup to provide sheen, to drywall compound to make it sandable, is used as window 'glass' in stoves and furnaces, used in electronics to make capacitors and insulators, in the plastic industry as an extender, filler, and reinforcing agent, and in the rubber industry as a filler.

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