A hard red, brown, or yellow translucent fossil resin of coniferous trees: In about 600 B.C., the Greek philosopher Thales rubbed amber with silk, causing it to attract dust and feathers.

This static electricity was believed to be a unique property of amber until the sixteenth century, when English scientist William Gilbert demonstrated that it was characteristic of numerous materials.

He called it "electrification", after elektron, the Greek word for amber.

Rosin of the yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin: Inferior amber and amber processing waste can be made into amber colophony or rosin and amber oil, which are both raw materials for the production of high-quality amber lacquer or varnish.

The coniferous trees that produces fossil resin: Amber produced from the amber pine is valued as a gemstone for its color and beauty sine the antiquity, and is used in jewelry.

A polish that is processed from amber, or from resin of a tree: Amber decomposes when heated below 300 degrees Celsius, yielding "oil of amber", and a black residue called "amber pitch".

When dissolved in oil of turpentine or linseed oil, it forms amber varnish or amber lac.

Brown essential oil distilled from amber: Oil of amber is miscible (mixable) with alcohol which has a balsamic (aromatic resin) aroma.