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Back to Rocks and Minerals Articles Kathy Feick Amber is not a mineral, since it has an organic origin and has no internal arrangement of atoms.
Differences between real and fake amber: When heated, amber burns like incense and releases a sweet and piny fragrance, while fake amber has a more plastic-like smell Genuine Baltic amber will float in salt water.
At home, you can mix one part salt water and two parts water to produce salt water. If it is not too humid out, try rubbing amber on your clothing or hair and then see if it will attract tiny flakes of paper. Mills, R. White, and L. Gough, Chemical Geology , Vol. This article presents data from the chemical analysis of amber samples.
An issue of this journal contains a number of articles on Baltic amber:. Spectroscopic Investigations of Amber, C. Beck, Applied Spectroscopy Reviews , Vol. A review of the spectroscopy characterization of ancient amber samples. Fraquet, Butterworths, London, pp. General information on amber sources and history is presented. Lambert, C. Beck and J. Frye, Archaeometry , Vol. A comparison is made between ambers from the Baltic region and those from southern Europe.
Poinar, Stanford University Press, Stanford, pp. This book discusses the history, lore and scientific study of amber. Grimaldi, A. Shedrinsky, A. Ross, and N. Because amber samples with inclusions of animal or plant material are highly prized, forgeries are more convincingly and routinely made than is the case for most other kinds of fossils. The author discusses forgery techniques and the identification of fraudulent amber samples. Poinar, Experientia , Vol.
The author reviews the major fossiliferous amber deposits, the categories of life forms in amber reported from each, and the information that could be provided by further DNA studies of fossils in amber samples. Grimaldi, H. Based on an exhibition held at the museum, this book explores many aspects of both the lore and study of amber. Czechowski, B. Simoneit, M. Chojcan, and S. Wolowiec, Applied Geochemistry , Vol. The authors studied eight amber samples from several locations and present data on the physical and chemical properties.
Poinar, Geology Today , Vol. The occurrence of amber along the coast of Poland is described. Amber: The Organic Gemstone, J.
Lambert and G. Poinar, Accounts of Chemical Research , Vol. Based on a study of several hundred samples, the authors discuss the use of solid-state carbon nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to potentially assign a geographical origin to archaeological amber samples.
Weitschat and W. Wichard, F. Pfeil Verlag, Munich, pp. Pakutinskiene, J. Kiuberis, P. Bezdicka, J. Senvaitiene and A. Recently collected and archaeological amber samples from Lithuania were investigated by several analytical techniques. Baltic Amber Deposits, B. The author reviews the occurrence and origin of the Baltic amber deposits. Gaigalas and S.
Halas, Geochronometria , Vol. Based on the chemical analysis of certain isotopes, the authors discuss the botanical and geological origin of amber. Penney ed. This book chronicles the various types of fossils found in amber samples from major world deposits including those in the Baltic area.
Clark, Dunedin Academic Press, Edinburgh, pp. A general review of the sources and uses of amber is provided in this book. The author discusses the role amber plays in preserving plant and animal life from the geological past. Pastorelli, J. Richter, and Y. Shashoua, Polymer Degradation and Stability , Vol. Sincerely Svajunas Petreikis E-mail svajunas amberartisans. The Baltic Amber Bracelets looked great online, but in person they are superb!
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