Amber with fluorensce & pine smell, but not floating

[GEORGE-GR-68]

Hi members, glad to be here, I have a collection of fossils that mainly I want to ID and see also if they are real.

My topic now is for amber beads but not sure if they are real or fake.

I tried the following:

 

UV light: Fluoresce green (light green)

Hot needle test;  It smells sweet pine ( after few seconds, not immediately). No definitely not plastic, in Greece there are pines I know the smell. 

Needle does not penetrate easily the beads.

 

BUT

I tried seawater, does not float,

I tried also a lot of cooking salt (with iodine) and tap drinking water very warm, (not distilled water) in a stainless metal pan bowl (I had seen in a you tube video was not recommending metal bowl,I do not know why). I have put so much salt that it does not dissolve anymore. Result:  They drop., Funny they seem to float a bit before they drop to the bottom, they do not drop down like rocks.

 

Also if rubbed (for a minute) on a sweater (cotton or wool) the bead does not create static electricity, I do not feel my hair going up when I place the bead on my head.

 

So two white flags and two red flags.

 

Do I have topal? (I have no idea if topal behaves differently than amber)

Do I have a plastic fake that smells like pine?

 

Or I have real amber but I do something wrong?

 

Any help? Thank you for any possible answer.

 

Note: the same happens for various different beads ie: creamy yellow, light brown with spangles etc.

 

 

 

[Yoda]

Do you know where the Amber was collected ?? 

 

May be possible to tell from a photo. 

Can you post one 

[Pliosaur]

Posting a picture would be helpful and make identification much easier

 

Use 1 part salt to one part cold water. Some people recommend at least 7 teaspoons of salt to a small glass of water.

Add your test stone to the water. Check that it floats. Add salt until it floats.

Then add your amber. If it does not float, add more salt and chill the water.

Some plastics won’t float. Others will.