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nephrite
[ nef-rahyt ]
noun
- Mineralogy. a compact or fibrous variety of actinolite, varying from whitish to dark green: a form of jade.
nephrite
/ ˈnɛfraɪt /
noun
- a tough fibrous amphibole mineral: a variety of jade consisting of calcium magnesium silicate in monoclinic crystalline form. Formula: Ca 2 Mg 5 Si 8 O 22 (OH) 2 Also calledkidney stone
nephrite
/ nĕf′rīt′ /
- A green to blue variety of jade. Nephrite is an amphibole and is the least precious form of jade. Chemical formula: Ca 2 (Mg,Fe) 5 Si 8 O 22 (OH) 2 .
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of nephrite1
C18: via German Nephrit from Greek nephrós kidney, so called because it was thought to be beneficial in kidney disorders
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Example Sentences
Beside the commoner minerals five to eight per cent of implements made of nephritoids (nephrite, jadeite, and chloromelanite).
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It is a kind of nephrite or jade, a mineral which usually occurs in talcose or magnesian rocks.
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Spleen′ishness, the state of being spleenish; Spleen′-stone, jade or nephrite; Spleen′wort, any fern of the genus Asplenium.
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This celt is of a mottled green "marble resembling onyx" (probably serpentine or nephrite) 400 mm.
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Objects made of nephrite and whale's bone are lacking in the Yakima Valley.
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