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| Amber teething necklaces by Drop of Amber |
Let me clear some of that up for you.
1st statement: Any amber works the same. FALSE
The main reason amber is considered to be a natural analgesic is the content of the succinic acid in it. The only amber that has succinic acid in its chemical constitution is Baltic amber, thus, if you want a working teething necklace it needs to be from Baltic amber.
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| White amber Picture taken from http://www.ambergallery.lt |
White amber is quite rare it accounts for about one to two percent of all baltic amber that is acquired in various ways.
It has a rich variety of textures and markings in it. It is also called royaland bone amber and sometimes mixed up with ivory.
It can have inclusions of other colours of amber -- yellow, black, transparent, blue or green, these make the most wonderful designs.
The reason why this amber is white are little micro-bubbles trapped inside the resin while it solidified. One square milimeter of white amber ca have up to 1 million bubbles inside. The more bubbles -- the whiter the amber. Due to the bubbles white amber is much lighter than any other kind of amber and thus it floats not only in sea water but also in fresh water.
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I like to learn and advance my skills. For about a month I have been learning metal crafting and namely how to make more advanced jewelry using fire and tools like silversmiths hammer, metal saw and lots of others.
First thing I made was a textured silver ring, but that went back into scrap silver pile -- wanted to try out different textures and learn how to make silver smooth and shiny in a required form.
Here I present my second attempt at making something. A silver pendant with an amethyst stone set into it.
First thing I made was a textured silver ring, but that went back into scrap silver pile -- wanted to try out different textures and learn how to make silver smooth and shiny in a required form.
Here I present my second attempt at making something. A silver pendant with an amethyst stone set into it.
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For a long long time the only kind of fossilized resin that was allowed to be called amber was Baltic amber.
Then along came the second world war and Germans lost their access to the Baltic amber mines. Enterprising companies started looking for amber elswhere and found it, lots of it in fact in Dominican Republic. The original company became so successful that it soon got kicked out of Dominica and forbidden to export raw amber.
This fossilized resin was accepted into amber family around 1960.
Dominican amber comes from the resin of Hymenea protera trees as opposed to Pinus succinifera of Baltic amber. It is guessed that a lot of the resin was produced during forest fires caused by lightnings.
Dominican amber is found in many colors - the traditional yellow, orange and brown, but also transparent, without color.
Pink variety is rear, but the reason for this blog post is the rarest blue or sometimes green amber. Only some 100 - 150 kg of blue amber are mined in a year. Miners tell that blue amber is most commonly found in the amber mines in the mountain ranges around Santiago, Dominican Republic, Palo Quemado mine.
Then along came the second world war and Germans lost their access to the Baltic amber mines. Enterprising companies started looking for amber elswhere and found it, lots of it in fact in Dominican Republic. The original company became so successful that it soon got kicked out of Dominica and forbidden to export raw amber.
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| Blue/green amber (Wikimedia commons) |
Dominican amber comes from the resin of Hymenea protera trees as opposed to Pinus succinifera of Baltic amber. It is guessed that a lot of the resin was produced during forest fires caused by lightnings.
Dominican amber is found in many colors - the traditional yellow, orange and brown, but also transparent, without color.
Pink variety is rear, but the reason for this blog post is the rarest blue or sometimes green amber. Only some 100 - 150 kg of blue amber are mined in a year. Miners tell that blue amber is most commonly found in the amber mines in the mountain ranges around Santiago, Dominican Republic, Palo Quemado mine.
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