The mineral mica is not a gemstone. It is not considered a precious mineral or gem. It is a valuable mineral that has a number of applications, and it is likely you have some mica in your home now. Mica is used in the electronics industry as an insulator beneath semiconductor packages when they are mounted on heat sinks in consumer (and other) electronic equipment.
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Mica comes in a variety of forms and colors. The most common micas are biotite, which is dark colored, and muscovite, which is light in color.
Laundry detergents are made to a recipe. The manufacturers use a variety of ingredients apart from the basic detergent, colour is added, bleaches, optical brighteners, perfume, anti caking agent, rust inhibitors, hard water foaming agents, surfactants ... Chemicals like polyphospate, sodium carbonate or sodium silicate and aluminosilicate. It is impossible to answer your question about which one element is in laundry detergent. Pick an element, C, H, O, Ca, P, Si, B, Na, Cl, Al
Lauric acid is used to make detergents
The most common mineral which is used in laundry detergent are phosphates. This is used in detergents to remove hard water minerals in clothing.
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boron (borax)
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It is a mineral which can be pressed and used instead of glass.
They are the same thing, just with differing names. Soaps are detergents and detergents are soaps. The names have become associated with their different uses. Soaps are now primarily used to refer to soaps/detergents used on the body, while detergents have comes to mean soaps/detergents used for things other than cleansing the body, such as dish detergents.
The mineral mica is not a gemstone. It is not considered a precious mineral or gem. It is a valuable mineral that has a number of applications, and it is likely you have some mica in your home now. Mica is used in the electronics industry as an insulator beneath semiconductor packages when they are mounted on heat sinks in consumer (and other) electronic equipment.
Kaolin
It's used in shampoo to add shimmering shine. It's a mineral.
The old stove windows were made of the mineral mica.