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jadeite

[ UK /d‍ʒˈe‍ɪda‍ɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒeɪˌdaɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a hard green mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate in monoclinic crystalline form; a source of jade; found principally in Burma

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  • Prices were up for all of the auction house's major art categories, including £ 766.6 million in Impressionist and modern art, up 53% from 2009; ₤ £ 602.6 million in post-war and contemporary art, up 148%; ₤ £ 569.6 million in Asian art, up 145%; and ₤ £ 334.2 million in jewelry, jadeite and watches, up 55%. Jump in Art Sales at Christie's Points to Market Rebound
  • Mainland Chinese collectors have since stepped in, paying as much as $7.3 million at Christie's for a jadeite bead necklace last summer. The China Factor
  • It also analyzes the market, profit and the prospect of jadeite producing.
  • At left, an imperial jadeite necklace was sold for HK$43. 3 million. Sotheby's Spring Sale
  • In particular, it would have been good to include fancy colored sapphires (other than padparadsha), demantoid, jadeite, red beryl, and benitoite, to name a few.
  • Culture Minister, David Lammy, has placed a temporary export bar on a 'jadeite' Neolithic axe-head that once formed part of the collection of one of the fathers of British archaeology. Export bar placed on rare and beautiful Neolithic 'Jadeite' axe-head with Dorset connection
  • Of the two kinds of jade, jadeite and nephrite, the former is harder than the latter and cannot be scratched with a penknife blade.
  • Jadeite : Yes! You hurry it up too - release Metalia's power.
  • The question could well be asked why jadeite lost its symbolic role during the Bronze Age.
  • Jadeite dykes are intruded within serpentinites and are the metasomatic products of crystallization from hydrous fluids reacting with the serpentinites.
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