I'm trying to lay out the budget for my kitchen and just need a generic estimate. Looking for midgrade material.
Quartz is quartz Jade is jade. Apples and oranges(which one is more pure)?
Jade and Quartz are both crystals. The purest jade can only be transulcent, whereas the purest quartz can be transparent.
These materials are really two different things, so how can one be more or less pure than the other? Is an apple more pure than an acorn? Is there is something else you mean by the term pure? Here is how wiki defines Jade (in part): Nephrite is a variety of the calcium and magnesium rich amphibole mineral actinolite. The chemical formula for nephrite is Ca2(Mg,Fe)5Si8O22(OH)2. Quartz, on the other hand, is mostly simple silicon dioxide (SiO2). A clear crystal of quartz can be VERY pure silicate. White quartz (sometimes called milky or snow quartz) is probably less pure, because of all the inclusions that cause the milkiness, but it's still pretty pure SiO2. The clear crystalline form is more pure silicate because it crystallized slower when it was formed. Generally speaking, slower crystallization leads to more pure chemical composition. So I suppose, from this point of view, quartz is usually more pure than jade, because it contains a higher percentage of one chemical, when compared the the whole chemical composition of the particular stone. Just keep in mind that we are talking about two different chemicals (quartz vs jade), so the question of purity is tough to even define, let alone answer. Hope this helps!
From what I understand, the greater translucent jade is, the greater powerful it relatively is Translucency is its potential to enable easy by. it relatively is opaque yet good stuff does enable lightening with a easy on different edge. coloration could be even, without off coloration aspects.
