nephrite in English
Usually of a pale green or grey-green nephrite , they are worked to a high standard and are generally dated to the eighteenth century largely on stylistic grounds.
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1. Nephrite adzes appear to have been particularly valued.
2. The chemical formula for nephrite is Ca2(Mg, Fe)5Si8O22(OH)2.
3. 8 words related to Amphibole: mineral, Amphibole group, amphibolite, nephrite, actinolite, anthophyllite, asbestos, hornblende
4. Jadite is generally sodium aluminum silicate, while nephrite is of the general composition of calcium magnesium silicate.
5. The white nephrite Buddhist Carving by modern master Xi Yang is displayed in the British Museum
6. Nephrite, one of the two minerals of the gemstone jade, is a green variety of tremolite.
7. Flower Jade, Nephrite Jade, Black Nephrite Jade Cabochons: Cabochons Gallery 69 : Chrysocolla and Malachite, Parrot Wing Chrysocolla Cabochons: Cabochons Gallery 70 : Garnet in Schist Cabochons: Cabochons Gallery 71 : Tiffany Stone (Bertrandite) Cabochons: Cabochons Gallery 72 : Marra Mamba Tiger Eye Cabochons
8. Even today gem collectors may find mountain crystal, agate, amethyst, jasper, pink quartz, chalcedony, nephrite, garnet, topaz here...
9. Additional but smaller-scale operations produce nephrite jade, magnetite, dolomite, barite, volcanic cinder, pumice, flagstone, clay, tufa, fuller’s earth and zeolites.
10. 3 The Maori obtained their nephrite adze blades by cutting grooves from either face of a boulder, using abrasives and water.
11. Figure 2 An ulu handle that used to hold its blade by copper rivets. Comparisons beyond coastal Copper Inuit include crude unground black chert arrowheads with wide shoulders and nephrite adzes like those west in the Mackenzie Delta and northwestern Alaska.
12. Also, there are a number of parallels between the Baldwin complex of the Fraser River (1,000 to 350 B.C.) and Locarno Beach of the Strait of Georgia, such as projectile point styles, nephrite adzes, microblades, ground slate projectile points and knives, stone beads, labrets, pendants, and biomorphic sculpture.
13. Trade of steatite (soapstone), nephrite adzes, and basalt from the interior for dentalium beads and other marine shell objects from the coast, must only represent a limited reflection of a much broader trade in perishables such as dried salmon from the interior and eulachon fish oil from the coast.
14. Proposals relating to the development of status inequalities have largely been based upon such considerations as the growing importance of wealth objects like obsidian, marine shell beads and pendants, nephrite adzes, and native copper, the uneven occurrence of grave offerings in cemeteries with some infants being richly provided suggesting wealthy lineages and families, head deformation on the southern coast as well as burial mounds, and the association of sophisticated art with the preceding assumed indicators of status.