Baltic amber is distinguished by its yield of succinic acid, hence the name succinite.
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Among these outcrops, 20 have yielded biological inclusions comprising the oldest representatives of several recent families of terrestrial arthropods.
The most important amber from the Cretaceous is the from the in northern Myanmar, and is the only commercially exploited Cretaceous amber.
It can be synthetically created or derived from natural resins.
The Low German term became dominant also in by the 18th century, thus modern German Bernstein besides barnsteen.