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RETINITE (Gr. /o/T1vrt, resin)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 203 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RETINITE (Gr. /o/T1vrt,
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resin)  , a
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general name applied to various resins, particularly those from beds of
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brown
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coal, which are near
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amber in
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appearance, but contain little or no succinic
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acid . It may conveniently serve as a generic name, since no two
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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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