What Do You Know About Amber, A Gemstone Cabochon?

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You will not know that amber is one kind of gemstone cabochons if you don’t read this article. What you do know is that amber is a natural resin product which undergoes millions of years’ precipitation under the earth. It eventually comes out as amber through a series of chemical change. Amber has varied shape and figure with something fluid-like resin things on the surface. Strangely, you can still see the remains or plant screw in the amber. These make amber a favorable, cherished and magic jewelry in addition to drug use.

As is mentioned before, ambers belong to one kind of gemstone cabochons, which means the surface of amber is round, as you can see. Amber is the product from the plants or animal remains which go through years of deposit. As jewelry decoration, amber has been admired by its rich color and natural appearance. In view of ancient western Greek myth, amber is the tears of the HeLi Atlantis while for Chinese people amber is the incarnation of dead tiger.

Amber is amorphous with various crumb shape and figure. ...
... Because amber is a kind of amorphous material, it has such features as isotropic, no cleavage, no color orientation and reflection. Inside amber there exist many things, such as insect, seeds and other foreign material which are captured before the resin getting hard. Due to the fact that amber can get burned under so low heat temperature that German call it burning stone.

The color of amber is rich with different degree of transparency. According to their features people divide them into different category: stone amber, flower amber, water amber, gold amber, soul amber, bloody amber, etc. It is said from most jewelry making supplies that amber like blood is none to second. The worst amber would be wax amber in light yellow.

In real life, amber is applicable.
As a gemstone cabochon, amber is often processed into necklace, collar, rings, earrings, small ornament and decorative arts and crafts. It is said that amber can comfort mood and cast away devil. On traditional wedding occasion, the groom must put an amber necklace on the bride because in the eyes of the relatives and guest, amber can pray harmony life and happiness marriage. In addition, amber jewelry is the most honorable gift in keeping good human relationship which makes both feel valued.

No wonder that jewelry making supplies will never upset that amber will become overstock jewelry . However, since that jewelry has such a good sale, many people would like to share a soup from amber by selling fake amber. One way to take caution against it would be looking at the amber to see if it is transparent, whether it can burn. Or even you can use a drop of ethyl ether on the unobvious place. The place will have freckles on it after ethyl ether volatilizing. Otherwise it would be fake one.