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Перевод: nephrite

[существительное]
нефрит [мин.]

Тезаурус:

1. The two main groups differ in colour, and in the hand nephrite has an oilier feel than the glassier jadeite.
2. Whereas nephrite contains a high proportion of magnesia and a considerable one of lime, neither of these is present except as traces in jadeite.
3. The main sources of the keenly sought after nephrite are the gravels of the Arahura and Taramakau rivers in the northern half of the province of Westland.
4. White nephrite rings were already being distributed, presumably from this source, as far west as Seima near Gorki at the confluence of the Oka and the Volga at a period broadly contemporary with the Shang dynasty.
5. Other prized greenstones include an opaque nephrite from the river Dart and a translucent serpentine from Anita Bay, Milford Sound, both still further south.
6. As things turned out Meyer had the satisfaction of being able to point to alluvial sources of nephrite in eastern Switzerland and central Germany.
7. In nephrite it occurs exclusively as ferrous and in jadeite as ferric oxide.
8. The French mineralogist Alexis Damour distinguished two main groups, the amphibole rocks represented by nephrite and the pyroxenes which included jadeite and the little used chloromelanite.
9. The only other significant source of nephrite within reach was situated in and around the Vostochny Sayan range of inner Siberia, west of the southern end of Lake Baikal.
10. Until they supplemented it by jadeite from Burma during the eighteenth century, the Chinese relied on nephrite.
11. The main drawback was that apart from in Switzerland itself nephrite was seldom used in prehistoric Europe.
12. By contrast jadeite contains plenty of alumina and soda, only weakly present in nephrite.
13. Turquoise was also present among the grave goods of Fu Hao, consort of a Shang king, in a tomb dating from the first half of the twelfth century B.C. One of several nephrite halberd blades was hafted in a bronze mount studded with turquoise inlay.