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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
Allied to C. micaceus; differs in squamulose and not micaceous p.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
It is chiefly the micaceous oxide, accompanied by the red oxide, and by iron-glance.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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 Luigi Palmieri
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