# Retinite

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'''Retinite''' is [resin](/source/resin), particularly from beds of [brown coal](/source/brown_coal) which are near [amber](/source/amber) in appearance, but contain little or no [succinic acid](/source/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.<ref name="Dana1895">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Retinite|encyclopedia=The system of mineralogy of James Dwight Dana 1837-1868 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=1895 |edition=6 |page=1004 |last1=Dana |first1=James Dwight |author-link1=James Dwight Dana |last2=Dana |first2=Edward Salisbury |author-link2=Edward Salisbury Dana |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x002308182&seq=1078 |language=en |location=New York |oclc=10749387 |hdl=2027/uva.x002308182}}</ref><ref name="Britannica1911">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Retinite|volume=23|page=203}}</ref>

Retinite resins contain no succinic acid and oxygen from 6% to 15%.<ref>{{cite web |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Retinite|url= https://www.mindat.org/min-9143.html/ |website=[Mindat.org](/source/Mindat.org)|publisher=The Hudson Institute of Mineralogy|location=Kewsick, VA, USA}}</ref>
thumb|Polished Borneo retinite from Beradai Coal Mine, Merit-Pila, Sarawak, Malaysia

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Category:Resins

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