AMBER by jon ber

As old as 90 million years,  its usually gold & brownish - honey like, but also appears in white, green & rarely blue.


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Mystical and beautiful - Amber origin is commonly associated with Baltic regions and indeed most - Amber jewelry and beads arrive to the world's markets from Poland and Russia.

But reportedly the oldest Amber fossils found to date, were discovered in Kansas and New Jersey, USA.


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Magnificent specimens of Amber with inclusions - housing all imaginable wild life - are still being discovered in the Dominican Republic. These usually are much younger and their color is yellowish.


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The Germans called the fossil Bernstein, because when heated, it will eventually burn. The original name however believed to come from an Arabic word.  In hebrew the Bible calls Amber Inbar.

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Amber was called by the  Greeks  Electron due to its ability to generate electricity.