Interesting facts about amber

The name “amber” refers to a variety of fossilized plant resins.

Typically, however, it refers to the well-known Nordic amber, which grew in Scandinavia and gradually penetrated from the rocky plateaus into the continental deltas and swamps, that is, to the beaches of the North and Baltic Seas.

This amber is commonly referred to as “Baltic” or “Nordic” amber because there are different types of amber that differ in time period and place of origin as well as physical and chemical properties.

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Amber is an organic material that is amorphous.
It consists of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen (C10H16O4) as well as some sulfur. Amber is a high molecular weight organic acid molecule with over 20 chemical components.

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The color of amber can range from pale yellow, almost white to reddish brown; it can also be green and blue, and gray and black patterns have even been discovered. It can be clear, semi-transparent or opaque. Sometimes it can even be luminous. Its dark color is caused by oxidation, ise during long periods of use.

By the way: Please keep your amber jewelry as dark as possible and locked away from ventilation. Beforehand, ise immediately after wearing and before its "resting time", you literally "chill" your amber like an egg in a vigorous flow of cold water from the tap for about 5–10 seconds. The electrostatics of amber are “reset” because amber, even as jewelry, continues to pursue its chemo-physical tendencies undiminished .

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Amber has a specific gravity of 1.05-1.25 on the Mohs scale, making it slightly heavier than water but still floating in seawater.

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Amber produces static electricity when rubbed, and the term electricity is derived from the Greek word for amber (electron).

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Amber is characterized by its ability to retain organic matter and trapped organisms, that is, those that were originally trapped in the new resin.

This ability once inspired the filming of a very simplified and epoch-mixed story of “Jurassic Park”. We emphasize: “Jurrasic Park” remains fiction. Nevertheless, for Bernstein people, it feels that even the border from science fiction towards history and reality has been clearly crossed. Now the two younger generations are very keenly interested in amber. We are very pleased about this, and anyone who comes to and is inspired by Jurassic Park will not receive anything refuted, but rather “sorted” and “supplemented” from a technical point of view as the true timeless amber knowledge.

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Nordic amber comes mainly from the Eocene at the end of the Tertiary, about 40 million years ago, and to a lesser extent from the subsequent Oligocene.

Paleogeographic reconstruction indicated that the development of amber deposits should be completed by the end of the Eocene, as the “amber forests” of Northern Europe were steadily fading due to the warmer environment of the Eocene.

Rivers transported amber from the slopes of Scandinavia and deposited it on the shores of the ancient sea, which originally covered the territory of today's Lower Germany, Lower Poland, all coasts of Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia and parts of Estonia. An area that was largely submarine at the time.

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Nordic amber can be washed up on coasts as far away as Yorkshire, England, at the other end of the North Sea. The North Sea bed away from the coast of Jutland does not contain any amber deposits. The sandy former seabeds, now land areas in large parts of the above-mentioned countries, are home to rare and individual small and widely distributed amber sediments.

Nordic amber deposits occur as still rare amber sediments under the southern Baltic Sea and deep in the lowlands from Friesland to Lithuania. Denmark is at the center of both routes, and in places lies on smaller and scattered amber sediments.

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The Greek word “electron,” Latin “plectrum,” was most likely used before the common Latin words glabellum and succinum entered the lexicon. The Greek sage Pliny the Elder introduced “electrons” for our Nordic amber in particular, which was already being shipped more or less regularly by the Greeks from Aquileia near Trieste to the Orient via the earlier Amber Route.

The most well-known today's ornament from the efforts of the amber world traders and shipowners at the time is probably the necklace of Pharaoh Tutankhamen un, which has one of four almost uniform embers incorporated into each of its four pendants, as the defining fragment of the necklace. The fact that it is sinny, ise Nordic amber, was proven by the laboratory of the British Museum, including through spectroscopic examination.

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The Greek word “electron”, Latin “electrum”, was used by the Greek sage Pliny the Elder for Nordic amber in particular.

Consequently, everything since then has been directly and indirectly related to electricity and, of course, its “offspring”, electronics, named after him, largely unconsciously, but in honor of amber, our amber underneath.