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Jade

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Name:From "piedra de ijada" stone of the flank, as it was thought to cure kidney pains.


A greenish black to creamy white ornamental stone or gemstone, highly valued in China and Korea. Translucent emerald-green jadeite-jade is the most prized variety.Rarely also blue, lavender-mauve and pink in colour, depending on mineralogy and impurity elements.

Many different rocks and minerals have been marketed as jade, especially nephrite and serpentine, but also green quartz, vesuvianite (californite), etc. Gemmologists, however, usually restrict the name to just jadeite and nephrite, both characteristically forming very tough, fine grained rocks. Nephrite is much more common than jadeite, and is a tremolite and/or actinolite-rich rock.


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Classification of Jade

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Other Names for Jade

Other Languages:
Arabic:يشب
Catalan:Jade
Danish:Jade
Dutch:Jade
Esperanto:Jado
Finnish:Jade
French:Jade
German:Jade
Hebrew:ירקן
Hindi:हरिताश्म
Hungarian:Jáde
Indonesian:Giok
Italian:Giada
Japanese:ヒスイ
Malay:Jed
Nahuatl:Chālchihuitl
Norwegian (Bokmål):Jade
Persian:یشم
Polish:Żad
Portuguese:Jade
Russian:Нефрит
Simplified Chinese:
玉石
Spanish:Jade
Swedish:Jade
Thai:หยก
Turkish:Yeşim
Ukrainian:Жад

Other Information

Health Warning:No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care.

References for Jade

Reference List:

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Ronzio, A.R. and Salmon, M. (1970) Trace elements in jade. Gems and Minerals: 389: 24-25, 45.

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Mindat.org articles about Jade

Article entries:
JadeAlfredo Petrov

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