[f. SUCCINUM + -ITE.]
1. Min. a. A granular garnet of the color of amber.
After F. succinite (Bonvoisin, 1807).
1816. P. Cleaveland, Min. (1822), I. 363.
1854. Dana, Syst. Min. (ed. 4), II. 191.
b. Amber.
After G. succinit (Breithaupt, 1820).
1854. Dana, Syst. Min. (ed. 4), II. 466. Amber. Yellow Mineral Resin,… Succinite.
1896. Nat. Sci., Aug., 100. Succinite is the most common and the best known of the Baltic ambers.
2. Chem. The insoluble resinous element in amber.
1868. Dana, Syst. Min. (ed. 5), 740. Amber is not a simple resin. According to Berzelius … it consists mainly … of a resin which resists all solvents (properly the species succinite), along with two other resins soluble in alcohol and ether.
