Axes of nephriteare scarce, but they are abundant of the ordinary materials (No.
Arzruni[135] maintains that the nephrite and jadeite of the lake-dwellings can be microscopically shown to differ from the Asiatic mineral.
Of simple stone axes and chisels there are only about a dozen good examples, but amongst them are two little gems--one a hatchet of nephrite (=Fig.
Mr. Frank draws attention to the remarkable fact, that while here there were nephrite objects, and no jadeite, the very opposite was the case at Schussenried.
Among the celts found here are a few of nephrite and one of polished flint.
Chloromelanite, on the other hand, though as a whole much rarer than either nephrite or jadeite, seems to have been more evenly distributed.
According to Fellenberg, this station belonged to the middle Stone Age period, as it has yielded no copper implements, nor perforated hammer-axes, but on the other hand most excellentnephrite implements.
Some beautiful implements of nephriteand jadeite, and occasionally copper objects, have been thus picked up, some of which are still in the possession of Messrs.
We smoked our pipes, though the Prince as a Lama did not indulge, fulfilling, however, his duty as a host by raising to his lips the pipes we offered him and handing us in return the green nephrite bottle of snuff.
It is associated under these circumstances with a copious discharge of urine of pale color and low density, and with the general signs of what Rayer first described as the nephrite goutteuse.
It is said to have been attached to a belt and worn round the waist as a cure for renal affections, against which the material nephrite was a sovereign remedy.
Thus objects made of nephrite and mica which occur, the former being common in the Thompson River valley, were not found in the Yakima area.
Objects made of nephrite and whale's bone are lacking in the Yakima Valley.
For some years after small quantities of nephrite were annually brought for sale from the Piopiotahi to Wellington, where they found plenty of purchasers among the natives of that district at about 1s.
The various weapons of nephrite that we had an opportunity of examining were of a pale green colour, which became transparent at the sharp edge, which ran all round, and had a peculiar flame-like glow.
The samples of nephrite were duly sent from Manila to China, where they proved to be of very poor quality, being disfigured by small black specks.
JADE, a name commonly applied to certain ornamental stones, mostly of a green colour, belonging to at least two distinct species, one termednephrite and the other jadeite.
Jadeite occurs in association with the nephrite of Turkestan, and possibly in some other Asiatic localities.
The reputed value of the stone in renal diseases is also suggested by the term nephrite (so named by A.
Nephrite occurs also in New Caledonia, and perhaps in some of the other Pacific islands, but many of the New Caledonian implements reputed to be of jade are really made of serpentine.
In certain cases nephrite is formed by the alteration of jadeite, as shown by Professor J.
Much of the nephrite used by the Chinese has been obtained from quarries in the Kuen-lun mountains, on the sides of the Kara-kash valley, in Turkestan.
According to Finlayson, the New Zealand nephrite results from the chemical alteration of serpentine, olivine or pyroxene, whereby a fibrous amphibole is formed, which becomes converted by intense pressure and movement into the dense nephrite.
Nephrite is said to occur also in the Pamir region, and pebbles are found in the beds of many streams.
The mode of occurrence of the nephriteand bowenite of New Zealand has been described by A.
Damour in 1863, differing markedly from nephrite in that its relation lies with the pyroxenes rather than with the amphiboles.
Nephrite is said to have been discovered in 1891 in the Nan-shan mountains in the Chinese province of Kan-suh, where it is worked.
One of the most famous localities for nephrite is on the west side of the South Island of New Zealand, where it occurs as nodules and veins in serpentine and talcose rocks, but is generally found as boulders.
Nephrite is found in Turkestan, in Siberia, and in New Zealand.
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 Turkestan.
Jade, of the jadeite variety, which is rarer than the nephrite jade, and more highly regarded by the Chinese, is an exceedingly tough material.
Jade of the jadeite variety, which is harder than nephrite and more highly valued, is rare.
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.
On a nephrite statuette from San Andres Tuxtla, Vera Cruz, Mexico.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nephrite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
