<p>It is said of amber that it requires thousands of years of time and much pressure to produce amber from tree resin.</p>

<p>This was also said of diamond as well, but we now produce artificial diamonds by the ton.</p>

<p>So the question is, could we not make artificial amber, or is this somehow not possible?</p>

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2014-09-26T06:29:12.250Z
Not in any way an answer but somewhat relevant: https://twitter.com/MfNBerlin/status/512179995700371456
plannapus
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2014-09-26T06:34:38.433Z
More seriously, Poinar in [Life in Amber](http://books.google.de/books?id=J72FOr6AZOEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false) discuss about artificially produced amber a little (p. 8-9).
plannapus
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2014-12-15T05:23:57.443Z
related: http://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/2296/how-long-does-it-take-to-form-amber
Gimelist
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Maybe its possible in the same way wood can be artificially petrified through the argon process? I know its not the same as mineralization..but I'm not a science guy and was randomly thinking about this today and randomly stumbled my way here/now.
Robert Kibler
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Is it theoretically possible to artificially create amber?
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# Is it theoretically possible to artificially create amber?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-09-25)

It is said of amber that it requires thousands of years of time and much pressure to produce amber from tree resin.

This was also said of diamond as well, but we now produce artificial diamonds by the ton.

So the question is, could we not make artificial amber, or is this somehow not possible?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Not in any way an answer but somewhat relevant: https://twitter.com/MfNBerlin/status/512179995700371456  
> **username_1**: More seriously, Poinar in [Life in Amber](http://books.google.de/books?id=J72FOr6AZOEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false) discuss about artificially produced amber a little (p. 8-9).  
> **username_2**: related: http://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/2296/how-long-does-it-take-to-form-amber  
> **username_3**: Maybe its possible in the same way wood can be artificially petrified through the argon process? I know its not the same as mineralization..but I'm not a science guy and was randomly thinking about this today and randomly stumbled my way here/now.  

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