Retinite
Retinite is resin, particularly from beds of brown coal which are near amber in appearance, but contain little or no succinic acid. It may conveniently serve as a generic name, since no two independent occurrences prove to be alike, and the indefinite multiplication of names, no one of them properly specific, is not to be desired.
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Polished Borneo retinite from Beradai Coal Mine, Merit-Pila, Sarawak, Malaysia
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