Hammer paint
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Hammer paint is a special lacquer with a surface that looks like hammered metal when dried. It is also known as hammertone.
Hammer paint on a piece of pipe
Mica
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Micas are a group of silicate minerals whose outstanding physical characteristic is that individual mica crystals can easily be split into fragile elastic plates. This characteristic is described as p
Hammer paint
…caused by the different orientation of very small shiny particles, which are suspended in the lacquer. These particles are often made of the mineral mica. Mica is resilient, reflective, refractive, dielectric, chemically inert, insulating, lightweight, and hydrophilic. Alternatively, aluminium or bronze…
Mica
Sheets of mica
Photomicrographs of a thin section containing phlogopite. In cross-polarized light on the left, plane-polarized light on the right.
Dark mica from eastern Ontario