Jadeite is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 97 anagrams from letters in jadeite (adeeijt).
First recorded in 1860-65; jade1 + -ite1
jadeite is a sodium aluminum silicate and nephrite, a calcium magnesium silicate.
She smiled: "jadeite, of course; and lapis and crystals—the usual."
The most remarkable of all are a large number of model celts made of jadeite and other hard stones.
Jade of the jadeite variety, which is harder than nephrite and more highly valued, is rare.
Ornaments in the form of human and animal faces and heads nicely cut from jadeite and greenstone are not uncommon.
The name jadeolite has been given by Kunz to a green chromiferous syenite from the jadeite mines of Burma.
The principal jades belong, however, to one or the other of two species, jadeite and nephrite.
jadeite occurs in association with the nephrite of Turkestan, and possibly in some other Asiatic localities.
Beside the commoner minerals five to eight per cent of implements made of nephritoids (nephrite, jadeite, and chloromelanite).
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