| 21. | Khotan was a source of nephrite, a material much valued in China since the Hongshan period.
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| 22. | The site is believed to be where nephrite tools and ornaments were manufactured, hence the name.
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| 23. | White nephrite is milky in appearance and may have reddish-brown, black or green bands.
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| 24. | Nephrite, one of the two minerals of the gemstone jade, is a green variety of tremolite.
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| 25. | The first three are nephrite jade, while " tangiwai " is a form of bowenite.
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| 26. | This has led archaeologists to believe that the white nephrite artefacts are from local deposit in the Philippines.
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| 27. | In the first anime adaptation, Queen Beryl appoints Nephrite to continue the energy hunting job after freezing Jadeite.
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| 28. | Zoisite first mocks Nephrite after Jadeite is killed, and then cries out in anguish when he is killed.
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| 29. | Jadeite and nephrite artifacts found in the new world were at one point thought to have been from Asia.
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| 30. | :The Nephrite variety of Jade consists of amphiboles in the solid solution series tremolite-actinolite-ferroactinolite.
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