Main Difference
The main difference between Jade and Jasper is that the Jade is a ornamental stone and Jasper is a chalcedony variety colored by iron oxide
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Jade
Jade refers to an ornamental mineral, mostly known for its green varieties. It can refer to either of two different minerals: nephrite, a silicate of calcium and magnesium, or jadeite, a silicate of sodium and aluminium.
Jade is featured prominently in ancient Asian art, as well as having an important place in many other cultures.
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Jasper
Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or chalcedony and other mineral phases, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue. The common red color is due to iron(III) inclusions. The mineral aggregate breaks with a smooth surface and is used for ornamentation or as a gemstone. It can be highly polished and is used for items such as vases, seals, and snuff boxes. The specific gravity of jasper is typically 2.5 to 2.9. A green variety with red spots, known as heliotrope (bloodstone), is one of the traditional birthstones for March. Jaspilite is a banded iron formation rock that often has distinctive bands of jasper.
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Jade (noun)
A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.
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Jade (noun)
A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
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Jade (noun)
A horse too old to be put to work.
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Jade (noun)
A bad-tempered or disreputable woman.
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Jade (adjective)
Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
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Jade (verb)
To tire, weary or fatigue
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Jade (verb)
To treat like a jade; to spurn.
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Jade (verb)
To make ridiculous and contemptible.
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Jasper (noun)
Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
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Jasper (noun)
An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
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Jasper (noun)
Jasperware pottery.
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Jasper (noun)
A wasp.
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Jasper (noun)
A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
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Jade (noun)
a hard, typically green stone used for ornaments and implements and consisting of the minerals jadeite or nephrite
“a jade figurine”
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Jade (noun)
an ornament made of jade.
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Jade (noun)
a light bluish-green
“a silk blouse in a vivid jade green”
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Jade (noun)
a bad-tempered or disreputable woman.
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Jade (noun)
an old or worn-out horse.