For instance, there was been found scattered over Europe axes made of varieties of stone known as nephrite and jade. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
It is a kind of nephrite or jade, a mineral which usually occurs in talcose or magnesian rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
Jadeite is a sodium aluminum silicate and nephrite, a calcium magnesium silicate. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
Indeed, the case of jadeite and nephrite is often referred to as an example of the latter. From Wordnik.com. [Natural Kinds] Reference
Jade of the jadeite variety, which is harder than nephrite and more highly valued, is rare. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
Importantly, a sample that does not consist of either nephrite or jadeite is simply not jade. From Wordnik.com. [Natural Kinds] Reference
His "denying projectibility" reply starts from the familiar fact that the kind "jade" fragments into jadeite and nephrite. From Wordnik.com. [Multiple Realizability] Reference
Lastly for that kind of money I'd want something like fossilized mammoth ivory or slabs of Wyoming nephrite jade for the handle. From Wordnik.com. [A Knife for the Next Depression] Reference
Most of the jade of the variety nephrite that is obtained to-day comes from several of the provinces of China or from Siberia or from. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
Jade, of the jadeite variety, which is rarer than the nephrite jade, and more highly regarded by the Chinese, is an exceedingly tough material. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
Flashman's black jade chess set may well have been a priceless rarity, even if it was probably a black variety of jadeite rather than nephrite. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Dragon]
As has already been said of jadeite, the jade of the nephrite variety, while slightly less hard, is about as tough a mineral as one could expect to find. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
True jade, whether jadeite or nephrite, deserves a larger use in inexpensive ornaments, as it may be had of very fine green color and it is inexpensive and durable. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
Copper Alloy with gold gilding and polychrome enamel inlays (cloisonné) 14 3/4 x 10 x 7 1/2 inches Asian Art Museum Ornament depicting a lotus pond Green nephrite on a gold mount. From Wordnik.com. [Art of the Ming Dynasty] Reference
"It is nephrite, or Maori greenstone," replied Musard. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand in the Dark] Reference
In such a case the occurrence of nephrite at Behring's. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
Jade, or nephrite, a variety of jasper, -- called by the. From Wordnik.com. [Some Chinese Ghosts] Reference
It is carved out of nephrite or jade, and is deposited upon. From Wordnik.com. [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference
Jade is found in two different minerals, jadeite and nephrite. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Sometimes also this very rare and hard Amazon-stone is confounded with the hatchet-nephrite. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
But works executed in these minerals do not fetch a price at all comparable to that of nephrite. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
This is a form of nephrite jade, here suffused, as white jade often is, with the very faintest hint of celadon green. From Wordnik.com. [WalesOnline - Home] Reference
The walls and pillars are inlaid with costly stones of various shapes: lapis-lazuli and malachite, nephrite and agate. From Wordnik.com. [From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People] Reference
Among other things he showed us sabres of great value, a head ornament consisting of a single piece of nephrite which he valued at 500. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
True jade, or nephrite, is a native silicate of calcium and magnesium, and does not exhibit either crystalline form or distinct cleavage. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Household Curios] Reference
In Asia implements of nephrite are found both on the Chukch Peninsula and in old graves from the Stone Age in the southern part of the country. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
We first assembled in an antechamber, the only remarkable ornament of which was a large piece of nephrite, which was a little carved and had a Chinese inscription on it. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
'That's your true nephrite. From Wordnik.com. [The Speaker Of Mandarin]
The badges of office were made of nephrite. From Wordnik.com. [Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese] Reference
Harpoon-point of bone and nephrite, one-half. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
A dark-green nephrite comes from New Zealand. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
(nephrite). From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
China, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period, 1762 nephrite, gilding, and huanghuali wood crowcollection. com. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to From A to Jay-Z, hip-hop star is letter-perfect] Reference
Watered steel, wood, gold, emeralds, rubies, sapphires, nephrite; forging, carving, niello, encrustation, gold inlay. From Wordnik.com. [From the Treasure Trove of the Czars] Reference
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