Origin
People have been looking for the truth about the origin of amber for centuries. There were various theories about its source
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The contemporary Baltic Sea washes out the amber deposits located shallowly under the sea floor and casts the amber out onto the beaches along with a mix of seaweed and sticks.
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Amber is light and warm, always a living organic stone; when warmed up in a human hand, it gives off a pleasant smell.
MoreVariations and forms of amber
No other kind of amber has a diversity of colours equal to Baltic amber. Its vast colour range is due to the presence of fine air bubbles or organic debris—invisible to the naked eye, trapped inside the amber millions of years ago
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In gemmology, science about stones, inclusions are called foreign bodies (solid, liquid or gas) found in minerals.
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