{"id":27986,"date":"2024-11-15T07:30:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T02:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27986"},"modified":"2025-04-08T15:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:23:04","slug":"amber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/amber\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Amber?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Amber:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>fossil tree resin<\/strong> that has achieved a <strong>stable state through loss of volatile constituents<\/strong> and <strong>chemical change<\/strong> after burial in the ground.<\/li>\n<li>Amber has been <strong>found throughout the world<\/strong>, but the <strong>largest and most significant<\/strong> deposits occur along the <strong>shores of the Baltic Sea<\/strong> in sands 40 to 60 million years old.<\/li>\n<li>Amber <strong>occurs as irregular nodules, rods, or drop like shapes<\/strong> in all <strong>shades of yellow<\/strong> with nuances of orange, brown, and, rarely, red.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Milky-white opaque<\/strong> varieties are called <strong>bone amber.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>turbidity<\/strong> of some amber is <strong>caused by inclusions of<\/strong> many minute <strong>air bubbles<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Many hundreds of species of<strong> fossil insects and plants<\/strong> are <strong>found as inclusions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Deeply coloured translucent to transparent amber is prized as gem material.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ornamental carved objects,<\/strong> beads, rosaries, cigarette holders, and pipe mouthpieces are <strong>made from amber.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Amberoid, or \u201cpressed amber,\u201d<\/strong> is produced by <strong>fusing together small pieces of amber<\/strong> under pressure. Parallel bands, or flow structure, in amberoid help to distinguish it from natural amber.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is resin?<\/h3>\n<p>In polymer chemistry and materials science, resin is a solid or highly viscous substance of plant or synthetic origin that is typically convertible into polymers. Plants secrete resins for their protective benefits in response to injury.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/90-million-year-old-amber-discovered-in-antarctica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">90-million-year-old amber discovered in Antarctica reveals secrets of ancient forest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amber is fossil tree resin that has achieved a stable state through loss of volatile constituents and chemical change after burial in the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}