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It is a piece of micaceous sandstone, just over 4 inches long and 3 inches wide, and just under 1 inch thick.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2023
I have a collection of earthenware vessels: casseroles and shallower dishes from Cook on Clay, micaceous pots made by native New Mexico potters, Italian baking dishes, and so forth.
From Salon ● May 31, 2022
They were formed out of a micaceous stone, but the attempt to unite the fragments was quite hopeless.
From Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys by Farrer, James Anson
There are signs of the former action of such vapors in rents of the micaceous schist of Thermia, and thermal springs now issue from the grottoes of that island.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
The internal temperature of this mass was very high; the hydrochloric acid which it discharged had, in some places, covered the micaceous iron with a yellow coating of chloride of iron.
From The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Palmieri, Luigi
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