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Details

IRUG filename:
INR00320
Data type:
Infrared
IRUG material class:
Natural resins (NR)
Sample type:
Reference material
Common name(s):
Amber, rumanite, Romania (wet KBr), fossil resin
CAS name:
Amber
Source location 1:
Coltza, Romania
Sample source 2:
American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
Source location 2:
Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY, 10024, US
Sample identifier 2:
AMNH Inv. No. 17297
Sample source 3:
Vassar College, Chemistry Department
Source location 3:
124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, New York, 12604, US
Application:
Transmission FTIR spectroscopy
Mode:
Tran
Literature Reference:
E.C. Stout, C. W. Beck, K. B. Anderson, Identification of rumanite (Romanian amber) as thermally altered succinite (Baltic amber), Phys. Chem. Minerals. (2000), 27: 665-678. Beck, C. W., Spectroscopic Investigations of Amber, Applied Spectroscopy Reviews, 1986, 22 (1), 57-110.
Originating institution name:
Vassar College
Originating institution acronym:
VC
CAS registry no:
9000-02-6
Other analytical methods:
GC (gas chromatography), GC-MS (gas chromatography-mass spectrometry), Py GC-MS (pyrolysis gas chromatography - mass spectrometry)