Color Names

Nephrite

Dusty greenish-grey, like the stone carved into delicate Chinese sculptures.

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Nephrite is a cool grey, close to green.

It can be described as cool, muted, greyish and dusty.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Nephrite

Nephrite

Nephrite is a variety of the calcium, magnesium, and iron-rich amphibole minerals tremolite, actinolite or ferro-actinolite (aggregates of which also make up one form of asbestos). The chemical formula for nephrite is Ca2(Mg, Fe)5Si8O22(OH)2. It is one of two different mineral species called jade. The other mineral species known as jade is jadeite, which is a variety of pyroxene. While nephrite jade possesses mainly grays and greens (and occasionally yellows, browns, black or whites), jadeite jade, which is rarer, can also contain blacks, reds, pinks and violets. Nephrite jade is an ornamental stone used in carvings, beads, or cabochon cut gemstones. Nephrite is also the official state mineral of Wyoming.

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nephrite

Noun

  1. A semi-precious stone, one of the two types of stone commonly referred to as jade (the other being jadeite).
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