Minerals
🪨Micas
Mica Group
Sheet silicates that split into thin, flexible, transparent sheets. Used historically as window glass ('Muscovy glass') and today in electronics as an insulator.
Source: Wikipedia💡Muscovite mica can be split into sheets so thin they're transparent — and was actually used as window panes in medieval Russia.
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