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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, See also:resin) , a See also:general name applied to various resins, particularly those from beds of See also:brown See also:coal, which are near See also:amber in See also:appearance, but contain little or no succinic See also:acid. It may conveniently serve as a generic name, since no two See also: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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