Chemical Formula: C12H20O
Familly: Organic
Status: IMA-GP
Crystal System: Amorphous
Mineral for Display: Yes
Associated names (luminescent varieties, discredited names, synonymes etc.): allingite, duxite, cedarite, walchovite, simetite, delatynite, burmite, gedanite, rumanite, succinite, gedano-succinite, valchovite,UV Type | Main color | Intensity | Observation Frequency |
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Long Waves (365nm): | Bluish White | Medium | Very often | Short Waves (254 nm): | Yellowish White | Medium | Very often |
Other colors LW: | White , Bluish White , Yellowish White , Pale Yellow , Green , Greenish , Greenish white , Yellowish , | ||
Other colors MW: | White , Bluish White , Yellowish White , Pale Yellow , Greenish white , Yellowish , | ||
Other colors SW: | White , Bluish White , Pale Yellow , Greenish , Greenish white , |
Daylight Picture
AMBRE, Gdansk, Pologne; Col. G.Barmarin; Photo: G. Barmarin
Long Waves Picture (365nm)
AMBRE, Gdansk, Pologne; UVLW Col. G.Barmarin; Photo: G. Barmarin
Short Waves Pictures (254nm)
AMBRE, Gdansk, Pologne; UVSW Col. G.Barmarin; Photo: G. Barmarin
Galerie de photos:
...To the gallery (6 images in the gallery)
UV Type | Color | Intensity | Observation Frequency |
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Long Wave (365nm): | Yellowish White |
Blue amber : strong blue fluorescence LW due to the presence of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon known as Perylene. It is formed from the resin of the Hymenea Protera tree unlike other ambers which originate from conifers.
Most Common Activator: Intrinsic organic material
Peaks in the spectrum (nm):
Broad band centered at 500 nm (+/-100nm half-width) / "waves" at 480, 513, 548 and 592nm
Col. G. Barmarin; Spectre: G. Barmarin
To the spectrum gallery (2 spectra in the gallery)
(*)Data are not exhaustive and are limited to the most important localities for fluorescence
Images:
http://www.mindat.org/show.php?name=Amber
http://webmineral.com/data/Amber.shtml
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