If you've been sourcing mica-based substrates for more than a few years, you already know the gap between spec sheet and reality. A supplier sends you "high-purity muscovite," you run it through your process, and the batch comes out with inconsistent luster and a color shift that wasn't there in the...
If you've spent any time formulating coatings, plastics, or construction materials, you already know that "mica powder" is one of those terms that gets used loosely — sometimes to mean raw ground mica, sometimes to mean TiO₂-coated pearlescent pigment, sometimes both interchangeably. That ambi...