Ornaments in the form of human and animal faces and heads nicely cut from jadeite and greenstone are not uncommon.
In the center of its back is a small circular opening, covered by a conical stopper, leading into the hollow interior, in which was found a small perforated polished jadeite bead, in the form of a grotesque human face.
Close to the pots were found a small jadeite face and three greenstone beads or pendants.
Two small, rather crudely executed human faces cut in mottled jadeite, and finely polished, with which were three green jadeite beads.
Jade of the jadeite variety, which is harder than nephrite and more highly valued, is rare.
Jade, of thejadeite variety, which is rarer than the nephrite jade, and more highly regarded by the Chinese, is an exceedingly tough material.
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.
Jadeite is a sodium aluminum silicate and nephrite, a calcium magnesium silicate.
The use of the word ought to be confined to the first two minerals mentioned, namely, jadeite and nephrite, for they only possess the extreme toughness together with considerable hardness that we expect of jade.
Mogaung, where the jadeite occurs in serpentine, and is partly extracted by fire-setting.
Jadeite occurs in association with the nephrite of Turkestan, and possibly in some other Asiatic localities.
The jadeite is known as chauk-sen, and is sent either to China or to Mandalay, by way of Bhamo, whence Bhamo has come erroneously to be regarded as a locality for jade.
Bleeck, who visited the jade country of Upper Burma after Noetling, jadeite occurs at three localities in the Kachin Hills--Tawmaw, Hweka and Mamon.
Some jadeiteseems to be a metamorphosed igneous rock.
In Mexico, in Central America and in the northern part of South America, objects of jadeite are common.
He thinks that Mexican jadeite may yet be discovered in places (Gems and Precious Stones of Mexico, by G.
Dr Kunz suggests that the chalchihuitl wasjadeite in southern Mexico and Central America, and turquoise in northern Mexico and New Mexico.
The name jadeolite has been given by Kunz to a green chromiferous syenite from the jadeite mines of Burma.
Penfield showed, by measurement, that jadeite is monoclinic.
Jadeite is much more fusible than nephrite, and is rather harder (6.
At the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico amulets of green stone were highly venerated, and it is believed that jadeite was one of the stones prized under the name of chalchihuitl.
It is therefore noteworthy that no single object fashioned from slate or jadeite and but few points of fossilized ivory were recovered at any of the sites characterized by the primitive stone culture and pottery of the Bonasila type.
Slate knives and polished celts of jadeite are characteristic of Eskimoan culture throughout the whole of its extent in Alaska.
The Eskimos of the lower Yukon Valley made extensive use of slate and of jadeite in the production of their polished knives and celts.
There were some jadeite axes, indicating a direct or indirect contact with Kotzebue Sound and the Kobuk River.
Beneath the Vaureal dolmen were found five skulls in a row, and near one of them, that of a woman, lay a necklace made of round bits of bone and slate, on which hung a little jadeite hatchet as an amulet.
The most remarkable of all are a large number of model celts made of jadeite and other hard stones.
Arzruni[135] maintains that the nephrite and jadeite of the lake-dwellings can be microscopically shown to differ from the Asiatic mineral.
According to the opinions of competent mineralogists the vast majority of those from Western Europe are made of jadeite and chloromelanite, the number made of the former being slightly in excess of the latter.
The stone implements are generally made of granite or serpentine, one only being of jadeite (sp.
They were all manufactured of materials readily found in the surrounding country, with the exception of three jade implements (two jadeite and one nephrite).
Of the stone hatchets four are of serpentine, one of jadeite (?
A detailed account of the jade and jadeite celts in the British Museum is given in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie.
Several of these highly polished jadeite celts have been found in dolmens in Brittany and there are some fine specimens in the museum at Vannes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jadeite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
