| Amber is seen by most people as a
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| | insects and occasionally small tree
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| gemstone, but it is actually fossil resin
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| | frogs. Amber can also retain parts of
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| aged between thirty and ninety million
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| | plants, insects, spiders, wood,
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| years old.
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| | stalacites, and hair.
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| Amber is available in four varieties:
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| | Amber is generally found within Sambia,
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| Blue amber, Dominican amber, Baltic amber
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| | and occasionally along the Baltic Sea and
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| and Delatynite. The most valuable of
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| | North Sea. The gems are collected along
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| these is the Blue amber. Amber is
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| | the sea shore where they have been washed
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| commonly used in bead making, jewelery
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| | up from the sea floor, sometimes divers
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| and in ornaments.
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| | are used to fish Amber from deeper areas.
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| Amber is also sometimes used in
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| | Amber has been used architecturally wise
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| cigar-holders and for the mouth pieces of
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| | in the creation of the Amber Room in
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| pipes. The Turks see this usage as
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| | Russia. The Amber Room was a collection
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| valuable so as to avoid the passing of
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| | of amber panels backed with gold leaves
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| germs when sharing pipes. Amber has been
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| | and mirrors that were created for the
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| used in ornaments since the Neolithic
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| | King of Prussia in 1701 and then handed
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| times and it was used either as an amulet
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| | on to the Tsar Peter the Great. When the
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| or for medicinal purposes.
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| | Nazis came in 1941 to destroy the
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| Amber can be copied quite easily by using
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| | building, the panels were hidden and have
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| a similar plastic resin. True Baltic
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| | not been found since. This room has since
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| amber contains succinic acid and it is a
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| | been recreated in 2003 and is dazzling to
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| fossil resin. Geology-wise amber is mined
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| | see.
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| in Sambia, within Russia, in the marine
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| | Amber is a beautiful addition to your
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| glauconitic sand or blue earth. Some
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| | jewelry collection (or your house, if
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| pieces of the gem contain preserved
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| | you're as rich as Tzar Peter).
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