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Amber Incense
Amber incense is also one of the popular types of incense and are used in various parts of the world. Amber incense sticks are widely used for their pleasant fragrance, medicial and other properties. Amber incense are used for protection, cleansing, and purification purpose. Amber incense also have antibiotic and stimulating properties which are used to treat several kind of deseases like amnesia, dreaminess, insomnia, stomach anxiety, memory loss and several other.
Amber is a crystalline fossilized tree resin of botanical origin and is native to India. This semi-solid mass of resins and gums has been prized for its color and natural beauty since the Neolithic times. It is yellow to reddish brown in color and can be clear to opaque. Archaeological discoveries document that Amber was among the first ornamental objects used by early men with instances that goes as back as to thirty thousand years. Such ornaments have been found in Mycenaean tombs and elsewhere across Europe. Amber is also used as an ingredient in perfumes and in traditional and folk medicine. The word amber also denotes a typical golden color that amber generally exhibits.
In the formative years, as the sap flows down, it traps a lot of fungi, bacteria and insects. These inclusions add to the beauty of the crystal and are also of very valuable in the study of taxonomy and evolution. Although amber is a prized perfume material and is used as a fragrant in making perfumes and incense amber on its own do not posses any natural aroma. When amber is heated above 200C it decomposes and produces oil of amber, which is mixed in a base of bees wax and combined with Styrax benzoin (Benzoin Gum) and other essential oils to derive its typical essence. Modern incense and perfumery products do not use actual amber because fossilized amber yield very little fragrance. Instead they are made by combining labdanum, benzoin resin, copal, vanilla, Dammara resin and/or synthetic materials. Good quality Amber oils do not contain any petroleum by-products or mineral oils as part of the mixture.
Formation and Composition
Over the time, high pressure and temperature induce polymerization in these resins and transform them into copal which metamorphose further to form ambers. Although amber is heterogeneous it comprises of a lot of resinous bodies associated with an insoluble bituminous substance. These resins are soluble in alcohol, ether and chloroform. Structurally each molecule is chiefly consist of hydrogen and carbon molecules that are linked in the shape of hexagonal rings. Over the time as the fossil matures polymerization, crosslinking and isomerism reaction plays a major role in hardening the sticky resin. Amber is a unstable organic polymer and is biodegradable. The average composition of amber leads to the general formula C10H16O.
Types of Amber:
Primarily, there are two types of plant resins which fossilize and are used to make incense, incense sticks and essential oil:
- Terpenoids, produced by conifers and angiosperms and has ring structures of isoprene.
- Phenolic, produced only by angiosperms.
There are five classes of ambers based on their overall chemical composition and structure.
Class I :
Containing labdatriene carboxylic acids like communic or ozic acids, this class of ambers occurs most abundantly and can be sub divided into three major types. Two of these types are based on regular regular labdanoid diterpenes like communic acid while the third one uses uses enantio labdanoids like ozic acid, ozol and enantio biformenes.
Class II :
These ambers are formed from resins with a sesquiterpenoid base, such as cadinene
Class III :
Class III ambers are aromatic polymer made from the aromatic monomer styrene.
Class IV :
These ambers are made up of edarane-based sesquiterpenoids and are of very inferior quality.
Class V :
Processed mainly from pine and pine relatives, these ambers consists of a mixture of diterpinoid resins and n-alkyl compounds.
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