Amber Like Resin On Attic Beams

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Amber like resin on attic beams.

Amberlite and amberlyst resins. Amber is a scent so popular that many varieties of the fragrance exist golden amber dark amber celestial amber and so on each fragrance slightly different than the next. Avoid conducting this test on small amber beads as it may destroy the bead completely. They are on the surface of a lot of the wood in the attic.

I was examining my attic with a head lamp and the light illuminated the wood just right and these amber drops started to glow. Make sure you watch the video to the last second i know i know total accident on burning the resin. Wood sap can hang from rafters in a long drop that resembles a long tear drop. You would never have sap leaking out of dried wood.

Specialty resins and adsorbents 1. Amberlite chromatographic grade ion exchange resins. So that s why i kept the. Wood sap on rafters can exist in two different forms.

These resins are suitable for columnchromatographic separation of similar materials including organic bases amino acids b vitamins antibiotics rare earths and other inorganic materials. And since beams are up on the ceiling and cannot be examined close up they just might pass for the real thing. I am guessing it is a preservative but all the literature says that the copper preservatives are green in color and these are definitely bright golden copper color and the only references to preservatives that use particles say they are much smaller in size than these. The reason it is leaking out of the wood there is because it looks like there was a particularliy resinous knot in the pine.

Initially sap sweats out of rafters in liquid droplets that can range in color from yellow to a dark red or amber. It probably got hot enough in the attic and it melted out this happens over time through many heating and cooling cycles. The heating test best done by amber experts. There are these tiny crystals about half a millimeter all over the wood in the attic.

Or you can purchase fake beams made out of high density polyurethane such as products from faux wood beams. Amber is fossilized resin. However to distinguish the piece from other materials make sure to smell the piece you have and if it smells of pine tree resin it is probably genuine amber. If not caught early sap can harden and crystallize.

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