Mineralogy of Chinese Stone Carvings.

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Constituent minerals of Chinese stone carvings are determined by orthodox methods. The minerals or rocks of the stone carvings examined are classified into five groups. Those are fluolite, pyrophyllite, serpeninite, calcite and jade. Two flower vases of fluolite crystals are purple and moss green in color, and exhibit distinct fluorescence of characteristic nature of fluorite. Pyrophyllite which is relatively soft is used for skillful fine carvings. The mineral of these fine carvings introduced here is only pyrophyllite and no other mineral is detected. Materials for seals were also pyrophyllite. Serpentine is used for noble carvings. Most of the minerals examined are antigorite, one kind of serpentine minerals, and some of them include talc and other small amount minerals besides antigorite. Two calcite carvings which look the appearance of nephrite are beautiful but soft. One of jade products is the jadeite bracelet and another is the seal carving of tremolite, one of nephrite.
千葉科学大学の論文
2009-02-28