What's the matter with cotton wool in the jade? Is it natural or acquired? Which is more valuable and collectible, the jadeite with cotton wadding or the jadeite without cotton wadding?
Cotton wadding in jadeite is indeed a major feature of jadeite, especially ice jadeite. Cotton wadding can be called one of its characteristics. Generally speaking, the existence of cotton wadding has a far-reaching impact on jadeite seed water, either good or bad. To develop in a good way can greatly increase the beauty of jadeite and add a lot of color to jadeite. And to the bad, the value of jadeite will be greatly reduced.
Usually, the lint is as small as possible. There are a lot of jade cotton wadding, which doesn't mean that jadeite is not good. For example, the 'wood jade' in ice jade is famous for its white cotton wool inside. The cotton wadding in ice jade is also known as' stone flower ', which is the embodiment of its value. However, ice jadeite is a kind of high-grade jade, and its value is reflected in many aspects, not just the influence of cotton wadding.
In fact, in ice jadeite, it is a common phenomenon that there are cotton wadding or flocculent strips inside. After all, there are few very clean jade materials inside. The cotton of jadeite is sometimes mistaken for the cracks and fissures of jadeite, so it will also be mistaken for the defects of jadeite. In fact, the cotton wadding is the result of the arrangement of the internal crystal structure of jadeite, and its existence adds more beauty.
The main mineral component causing the cotton wadding in jadeite is albite, which has existed in the process of jadeite jade formation and evolution. Any kind of water jadeite contains albite, but its crystal arrangement state is different, and its properties are very different, especially ice and glass jadeite, which has high transparency and is easy to be observed.
In addition to albite, the minerals that cause the cotton wadding inside the jadeite include nepheline, analcite, and some gas-liquid inclusions in the formation of jadeite, and even other impurities are the factors that cause the cotton wadding of jadeite.
In the industry, there is also an ice floating flower jadeite called snowflake cotton. Its most unique cotton wadding structure is pure white and light, just like snowflakes. It is soft with the jade quality of jadeite and becomes a part of the jadeite structure. This kind of snowflake cotton can be clearly observed with the naked eye. Due to the uniform distribution of cotton wadding, beautiful appearance and artistic conception, it is deeply loved by the public.