Gem variety: Amber

in #gem6 years ago

Amber is a semi-precious stone composed of coniferous or angiosperm plant resin. It takes 25 to 50 million years to become fossilized and its hardness is 2 and the oldest find of amber dates back about 320 million years.



Most know the ones that are already polished as in the following photo:






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Although raw they are this way:









Its most common color is light brown, but it can be found honey, yellow, orange, red, and even greenish.










And the incredible blue Dominican amber that looks blue in the sunlight by ultra violet rays and under light orthotic as common amber.














Some findings of amber contain small plants, insects such as ants, butterflies, mosquitoes, bees, dragonflies and small animals such as lizards, frogs and scorpions. Due to the confinement, these specimens are not reduced in size and they are preserved as they were before dying, which allows them to preserve small samples of DNA from these beings.

















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The strangest and only found trapped in amber is the tail of a dinosaur with feathers, which has had a great impact on paleontology.






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Hola, buen pots, siempre me ha gustado el ámbar, es como si fuera de alguna manera una "translucida maquina del tiempo", de la naturaleza.

Totalmente, espero algún día tener una!

Excelente, siempre me han fascinado las piedras, son tan hermosas que nunca pasan desapercibidas.

Son de lo más hermosas, pienso tener una gran colección

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