At 10:26 AM 8/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Roman - I distinctly remember what I believe to
>be Mica insulators (best described appearance-wise
>as simply 'clear and glistening' ) used in such common
>household products as toaters ... Have you seen that
>as well?

There's a kind of mica that is (was?) used in lamp shades
and I think it meets that description. The stuff used in
toasters these days is brown and flakes, IIRC.

It's used in large quantities in heaters (mica band
heaters) and it is probably still used in China and
Russia in their electron tube production lines .

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