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II.—Analysis of a Serpentine from Japan
1877
Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society
Quite recently I obtained from an importation of Japauesa curiosities two pairs of chop-sticks which were catalogued and sold as jade. Under this name arc often included, not only the true jade or nephrite, with a hardness of 6 and a specific gravity approaching 8, but also three other mineral species. Of these jadente is not only harder but heavier than jade : prehnite differs but slightly from jade in either of these characters; while flour, the remaining species referred to, has a hardness
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