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Amber |
Synthetic amber beads, synthetic amber pendants in popular cognac color and butterstotch color. If you are passionate with beautiful amber, these synthetic amber color beads can be the best choice. They enable everyone to enjoy the beauty of natural amber with a fraction of the cost. Our skillful craftsmen made these synthetic amber color beads imitating the characters of natural amber.
Amber is one of the birthstones for the Sun Sign of Taurus. They have an alluring, ancient quality to them and have been around for millions of years. Amber is much appreciated for its marvelous color and natural beauty. There even exists a whole museum—the Palanga Amber Museum, located near the Baltic Sea in Lithuania—dedicated to its rich history and luxurious beauty. They originate from the sticky resins of old pine trees, which have become fossilized over time from heat and pressure. Sometimes, amber may even contain within them preserved remnants of small insects—as depicted in the opening scene of the film “Jurassic Park”—spiders, or various plants.
Amber typically comes in golden, orange, or brown. Amber has a resinous luster and can range from transparent to translucent. It is extremely light and capable of floating in salty water with a specific gravity of only 1.1. When natural amber is broken down, they leave conchoidal-shaped fractures and can be smoothed down for a variety of jewelry pieces and pendants. Today, there are many varieties of synthetic amber to enable all to lavish in its magnificence. Synthetic amber is especially popular for ornamental pieces and jewelry. Amber is very soft, with a Moh’s hardness score of only 2-3, but synthetic pieces can be designed to prevent easy scratching in order to meet the consumer’s practical needs.
Other than for its practical and aesthetic uses in jewelry and ornamental pieces, Amber is associated with other purposes. It is long believed that Amber may have some medicinal purposes some fables tell of mouthpieces of smoking pipes that were made out of amber in order to prevent the spread of infection when shared. In Lithuania, where there once were once rich Amber trades near the Baltic Sea, there are fascinating and mystical tales of an undersea palace of Amber under the Baltic, which was shattered by the God of Thunder. It is believed that fragments of Amber that still wash up on the beaches of the Baltic are remnants of the mythical palace. |
