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Amber and shape chips

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Amber and shape chips. Amber is a fossilized resin, principally from extinct coniferous trees. It is generally found in association with lignite coal, itself the fossilized remains of trees and other plant material. Baltic coast has been a source of Amber for at least three millennia. It still produces the 90 per cent of the world's Amber.
Info: The word "electricity" is derived from the Greek name for Amber 'electrum'. This is because Amber can acquire an electric change when rubbed, a property that was described in about 600BC by Thales, and which is one of the most useful for identifying Amber.