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AMBER is a fossil resin much used for the manufacture of ornamental objects. The name comes from the Arabic anbar, probably through the Spanish, but this word referred originally |
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Amber is a fossil resin much used for the manufacture of ornamental objects. The name comes from the Arabic anbar, probably through the Spanish, but this word referred originally |
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karabe, a word of oriental derivation signifying ``that which attracts straw,'' in allusion to the power which amber |
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karabe, a word of oriental derivation signifying "that which attracts straw", in allusion to the power which amber |
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word ``electricity,'' from the Greek, elektron, a name |
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word "electricity", from the Greek, elektron, a name |
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of gold and silver. By Latin writers amber is variously called electrum?, sucinum (succinum), and glaesum or glesum. The Hebrew hashmal seems to have been amber. |
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of gold and silver. By Latin writers amber is variously called electrum, sucinum (succinum), and glaesum or glesum. The Hebrew hashmal seems to have been amber. |
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C10H16O. Heated rather below 300⩝C. amber suffers decomposition, yielding an oil of amber, and leaving a black residue which is known as ``amber colophony, or ``amber pitch; this forms, when dissolved in oil of turpentine or in linseed oil, ``amber varnish or ``amber lac. |
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C10H16O. Heated rather below 300°C, amber suffers decomposition, yielding an "oil of amber", and leaving a black residue which is known as "amber colophony", or "amber pitch"; when dissolved in oil of turpentine or in linseed oil this forms "amber varnish" or "amber lac". |
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Prussian amber. Succinite has a hardness between 2 and |
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Prussian amber. Succinite has a hardness between 2 and |
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the flora of Eastern Asia and the southern part of [[North America]]. [H. R. Goppert]? named the common amber-yielding pine |
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the flora of Eastern Asia and the southern part of North America. [H. R. Goppert]? named the common amber-yielding pine |
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Konigsberg?. At the present time extensive mining operations |
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Königsberg. At the present time extensive mining operations |
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in the formation of ``ambroid or ``pressed amber. The |
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in the formation of "ambroid" or "pressed amber". The |
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* Gedanite, or ``brittle amber,'' closely resembling succinite, but much more brittle, not quite so hard, with a lower melting- point and containing no succinic acid. It is often covered with a white powder easily removed by wiping. The name comes from Gedanum, the Latin name of Danzig Prussia at the Baltic Sea. |
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* Gedanite, or ``brittle amber,'' closely resembling succinite, but much more brittle, not quite so hard, with a lower melting- point and containing no succinic acid. It is often covered with a white powder easily removed by wiping. The name comes from Gedanum, the Latin name of Gdansk at the Baltic Sea. |
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limited extent at several localities in the [[United States]], as in the green-sand of New Jersey, but they |
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limited extent at several localities in the United States, as in the green-sand of New Jersey, but they |
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Amber is also the setting for the Amber fantasy novels by [Roger Zelazny]? (and for the Amber diceless role-playing game game they inspired). It is the one true world; all others, including our Earth, are but shadows of it. Only the princes of Amber can freely travel through and modify all these shadows of Amber. |
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