The Amber: Electric! Features amber

Amber is considered a gem, an "organic rock"

This is the gem the lightest and the tenderest (as opposed to diamond is the hardest).

Its name comes from the Arabic An bar. Following the discovery by Thales of its electrostatic properties, amber electron was called in Greek, the origin of the word "electricity". The ancient Greeks, like the Chinese, moreover, had in fact discovered that by rubbing amber, it produced an attraction to other objects and sometimes sparks. This is of course static electricity.

Amber is a fossilized resin of certain plant flowing poplar, alder, pine and even flowering plants.

The resin consists of soprano (cyclic molecule containing five carbon atoms) which, after many centuries and under certain conditions of heat and pressure, polymerizes and generates a material that is amber.

Baltic amber is the fossilized resin from coniferous trees of the Oligocene epoch that grew on the site of the present Baltic Sea. It is also known as "amber" or "amber" and is in the form of hard and brittle pieces more or less reddish. It is used especially in jewelry.

To find out if a piece of amber is real or counterfeit, the only reliable test is that of combustion. Placed on the amber white-hot needle. If this is true of amber, it smells of pine resin, while the needle leaves a white mark that crumbles amber. However, a plastic material gives off a pungent odor and leaves a black mark and sticky at the point of the needle.

Moreover, it is known without error the difference between a genuine and counterfeit inclusion. The inclusion is always true tan surrounded by a white who has fossilized in the resin. Traffickers do not know this brand imitate natural amber.

Beliefs about amber

It was thought that the amber preserved plant and animal life and is associated with an eternal youth.

This is why the Roman often kept pieces of amber in hand.

In addition, some Egyptian tombs contained amber.

The Slavs, meanwhile, have assimilated the petrified amber tears of the gods. Amber served as a talisman of protection. It also symbolizes the eternal bond of marriage.

In France, the Middle Ages, amber powder was an ingredient in love potions.

Amber, dedicated to Apollo, would be able to warm by transmitting solar energy. Thus, an amber necklace made of children's neck warmer. It also relieves the pain of babies during teething.

The man who wore a ring of amber could count on his manhood. The woman, whose ring on her wrist caused redness, was supposed adultery.

The wedding of amber:

Celebrating the wedding of Amber after 34 years of marriage.