Fungus gnat entombed in a 40-million-year-old piece of amber is a rare gem
Once transparent, they used an advanced camera and spectrometer to take a chemical fingerprint of the amber. This confirmed ...
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Experimental Studies on the Heat Treatment of Baltic Amber
To simulate the heat-treated varieties available in the Chinese market, the authors chose raw Baltic amber specimens ... cloudy bubbles inside the amber, improving its transparency and hardness. By ...
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Amber Quality Factors
Baltic amber is generally more expensive than Dominican amber ... even in large sizes. This makes it possible to use fairly large sizes in amber jewelry.
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Iron Age beads found in Syria were created from Baltic amber from over 3000 kilometers away
A recent analysis of beads discovered in the ancient city of Hama, Syria, has revealed that some were crafted from Baltic ...
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Tiny roundworms carve out unique parasitic niche inside pseudoscorpion's protective covering
Age estimates of Baltic amber vary widely, Poinar notes, from 23 million years to 55 million depending on who is doing the estimating and which method is used. "The fact that some nematodes were ...