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Jade superstitions - 04/10/2008 Jade Protects against disease: The Aztecs believed that it had prophylactic effect in gastric pains and in the passing of stones. Bernal Diaz del Castillo, the young soldier-historian who was eyewitness to the 'triumphs' of Cortez, declared that... News and moss-in-snow - 12/29/2007 First things first: the Rocky Mountain News, one of Denver's two daily newspapers, recently did a nice article on 'The Jade Room' in the business section. You can view it by searching 'Rocky Mountain News' and 'The Jade Room' on Google. When a wh... What is Jade? - 12/08/2007 If asked 'what is jade?', the most common answer would be that 'jade is a green stone from China'. That would be wrong on several counts. First: it is not one stone, but two. Jade refers, collectively to the two distinct stones JADEITE and NEPHRITE,... Jade: first observations - 11/07/2007 Jade is the collective term for two stones: jadeite and nephrite. Chemically, they are different, but are both silicates: jadeite a silicate of sodium and aluminum, while nephrite is a silicate of calcium and magnesium. Nephrite has the longer docum... |
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