Assertion: amber | /r/HasProperty | organic substance
Facets:
value: from the latin succinum
type: LOCATION
value: like dinosaur bones
type: OTHER
value: like petrified wood
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Amber is an organic substance that can last for millions of years WITHOUT CHANGING greatly in any way.
text: Amber is organic, like petrified wood or dinosaur bones, but, unlike those substances, it retains its chemical composition over time, and that is why some experts resist calling it a fossil resin (a nevertheless useful term).
text: Amber is an organic gem.
text: Although considered a gem, amber is a wholly-organic material derived from the resin of extinct species of trees.
text: In the Materia Medica (5), succinum is listed among the "settling" or "heavy" sedatives, which are mainly mineral materials; in fact, amber is organic and quite light weight.
text: Often regarded as a gem, amber is actually an organic substance known to mineralogists as succinite, from the Latin succinum which means amber.