Nephrite jade was considered more valuable than gold or silver. Nephrite jade in New Zealand is known as "pounamu" in the Māori language, and is highly valued, playing an important role in Māori culture. It is considered a "taonga", or treasure, and therefore protected under the Treaty of Waitangi. The exploitation of it is restricted to Ngai Tahu and closely monitored. The South Island of New Zealand is "Te Wai Pounamu" in Māori — "The [land of] Greenstone Water" — because that is where it occurs. Weapons and ornaments are made of it; in particular the "mere" (short club), and the
Tensor product of quadratic forms from this that if we have diagonalizations of our quadratic forms (which is always possible if formula_9 is invertible) such that then the tensor product has diagonalization Tensor product of quadratic forms The tensor product of quadratic forms is most easily understood when one views the quadratic forms as "quadratic spaces". If "R" is a commutative ring where "2" is invertible, and if formula_1 and formula_2 are two quadratic spaces over "R", then their tensor product formula_3 is the quadratic space whose underlying "R"-module is the tensor product formula_4 of "R"-modules and whose quadratic form is the quadratic form associated