How to distinguish between Oily Green Jade and Blue Water Jade? Expert explanation!

Blue Water Jade is very similar to Oily Green Jade. Many people cannot distinguish between Oily Green and Blue Water Jade. Most sellers are unwilling to admit that their products are Oily Green, and call them Blue Water. As a result, many people cannot tell the difference and become more confused the more they look at them.

If we want to know the difference between blue water and oil green, we must first know what oil green is?

Oil green, first of all, it must be oily, and the color is green or dark green. It is a kind of jade with delicate texture and transparent dark like oil. Blue water jadeite was once classified as a small category of oily green. As people's classification of jadeite became more and more detailed, blue water was separated out separately.

▼ Oily green jadeite

▼ Blue Water Jade

Blue Water Jade is a type of ice jade. Due to its color cast , Blue Water Jade tends to be green or gray, which is somewhat similar to Oily Green Jade. That is why the jade industry jokingly calls the two "close relatives."

Now here comes the point, how do we distinguish between blue water and oily green?

▼ Blue Water Jade

Compared with blue water jade, oily green jade lacks rigidity and iciness, has low density, and is darker green with gray and blue components mixed in. It is dull overall, as dark as oil, greasy and smooth, and feels gray, but its transparency and luster appear to be greasy.

The two conditions of the Youqing variety are: very dark color and a very oily luster.

If divided by color tone, oil green can be divided into two types:

First: Dark blue hue, the water is very good. This hue of oily green jade appears blue-gray under the light, without any green hue.

Second: blue-green hue. This hue of oily green jadeite appears green under the light and has good water quality.

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Blue water jade has a light blue color, which is not as dark as oily green. It is relatively old, has good rigidity, good water head, and its quality is between ice and glass types.

The texture of blue water is uniform and fine, and the color of blue water is the base color, which is still within the cyan range, with very few floating flowers, unlike the emerald stripes or patches. Also, the blue water luster is not oily, but glassy, ​​which is its biggest difference from oil green.

If you still don’t know how to distinguish after reading this, that’s not right. If you still can't tell the difference, don't worry, there is a simpler and easier way to remember:

White glass base + blue (gray taste) = blue water

▼ Blue Water Jade

White glutinous + blue (gray) = ordinary oil green

▼ Oily green jadeite

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