Sentences with phrase «resin of amber»

He was born 40 - 70 million years ago from the resin of amber pine.

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Formed over 45 million years ago, Baltic amber is an organic substance, a «fossil resin» produced by pine trees which grew in Northern Europe - from southern regions of the present day Scandinavia and nearby regions of the bed of the Baltic Sea.

Although many refer to amber as a «crystal» or a «stone,» the substance is actually resin that fell from now - extinct coniferous trees millions of years ago and solidified underneath the Earth's surface.

Baltic amber is hardened resin from now - extinct pine trees that resided in the Baltic region millions of years ago.

Well, it's because the amber inside the necklace actually comes from the fossilized resin of conifer trees.

When amber necklaces for teething babies are worn against the skin, the natural warmth of the fossilized resin causes the treatment oil (Succinic Acid) to seep into the skin and enter the bloodstream.

You walk in to a shop on your friend's recommendation, plunk down $ 20 for a child - sized necklace of individually knotted baltic amber resin beads and hear something about succinic acid being absorbed.

1) A lot of what's sold as «amber» these days is actually mostly resin OR has been treated artificially to look pretty and sparkly and sun - kissed.

Baltic amber is fossil resin produced by pine trees, which grew in Northern Europe - from southern regions of the present day Scandinavia and nearby regions of the bed of the Baltic Sea.

Although more than 125 types of fossil resins are known in the world, these resins are not amber but its relatives.

If you have strong hands, rub the fake amber into the hands until it releases the smell of pine - tree resins.

Yet it took fifteen thousand beetles six months to make enough of the amber - colored resin needed to produce a pound of shellac.

As a professor of entomology at the University of California, Berkeley, George studied insects and their parasites, traveling to amber hot spots like the Dominican Republic, Canada, Mexico and northern Europe to collect and describe just about anything trapped in resin, from feathers to frogs.

In March 2013, 30 years after the only Extinct DNA Study Group meeting, Hendrik strolled onstage before a standing - room - only crowd at the TEDx conference on de-extinction in Washington, D.C. With an image of an amber - ensconced insect from Jurassic Park on a giant screen behind him, Hendrik described how he and his father used to imagine long - gone insects waking up and crawling out of the resin.

More particularly, it is the story of the Poinars, George and Roberta, who have been bitten by the amber bugs, the insects that this fossil tree resin entrapped deep in the forests of the past from the Isle of Wight to New Zealand.

The 12 chunks of amber, originally collected in Myanmar, contain parts of lizards that got trapped in tree resin during the Cretaceous period.

The early philosophers already knew that it originated from the resin of trees; Greek mythology told the story of Phaethon's three sisters who were turned into trees as divine punishment, and wept tears of amber.

Some of the most common occupants of the Dominican amber are stingless bees, which collected resin for its antibiotic properties and fell prey to assassin bugs with lots of the sticky stuff slathered on the tips of their legs.

The team also compared fossil amber with modern resins to test the validity of the data.

The amber lens even offers a glimpse into continental drift: a resin - gripped honeypot ant, now resident only in Australia, indicates that that big island down under and the present continent of South America were once one landmass.

«The fact that we have found some specimens trapped within spider webs in the amber would suggest that wind played an important role in bringing the feathers into contact with the resin,» added McKellar, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

Preserved ticks in amber (i.e. fossilized tree resin), however, provide a better picture, since other elements of their surroundings can also get gummed up in the resin, giving us some clues about their lifestyle and how they interacted with other organisms.

We've also excluded fossil amber, because we feel fossil resin does not meet the proper definition of a Lagerstatte.

One theory behind the powers of amber flea collars is that resin has aromatic chemicals that are released when the amber is warmed by the dog's fur.

(We learn that amber, created from fossilized tree resin, is becoming more and more valuable, as there are very few of the ancient, amber - producing pine trees left in the world.)

The north coast of the Dominican Republic is famous for its amber (ancient resin) and the unique Amber Museum.

After making their way through the city to the main shrine, the group discovers that the Cintamani Stone is a giant amber derived, along with the flammable resin, from the sap of a prehistoric tree of life in the center of the city.

In October 2014, Untitled (Twenty - five spaces)-- a cast in translucent amber, rose and citrine resin of the space beneath a group of chairs — realised # 578,500 at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction in London, almost doubling its low estimate of # 300,000.

Things changed at that point and all of a sudden blossomed into these photographic substrates that are covered with either glaze or kind of amber or green resin with sunken moats around them, because he always called them moats, and then put within these kind of stained modernist frames.

Her Untitled (One Hundred Spaces)(1995) comprises a field of resin blocks, cast from the underside of assorted household chairs, and tinted in delicate shades of pistachio, rose, coffee and amber.

For the last 30 years of his life, he experimented with two - sided paintings, honey - colored translucent resins, see - through surfaces made of plastic, arcane Renaissance and Baroque imagery, paint that disappeared when exposed to light, gunpowder, 20 - million - year - old amber, images sewed together from pajama fabric.