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jadeite

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

jadeite Isolated, rare mineral of the clinopyroxenes with the composition NaAlSi₂O₆; sp. gr. 3.2–3.4; hardness 6; granular crystals or massive; jade is the precious variety of jadeite, although the term includes the amphibole mineral nephrite; it occurs with albite in blueschists (glaucophane schists) under conditions of low temperature and high pressure at destructive plate margins.

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jadeite

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jadeite see jade .

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

jadeite •affright, alight, alright, aright, bedight, bight, bite, blight, bright, byte, cite, dight, Dwight, excite, fight, flight, fright, goodnight, height, ignite, impolite, indict, indite, invite, kite, knight, light, lite, might, mite, night, nite, outfight, outright, plight, polite, quite, right, rite, shite, sight, site, skintight, skite, sleight, slight, smite, Snow-white, spite, sprite, tight, tonight, trite, twite, underwrite, unite, uptight, white, wight, wright, write •Shiite • Trotskyite • McCarthyite •Vishnuite • Sivaite • albite •snakebite • frostbite • soundbite •kilobyte • columbite • love bite •Moabite • megabyte • gigabyte •Jacobite • Rechabite • jadeite •lyddite • expedite • cordite • erudite •Luddite • recondite • troglodyte •hermaphrodite • extradite

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