Retinite Explained

Retinite is resin, particularly from beds of brown coal which are near amber in appearance, but contain little or no 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.^{[1] [2]}

Retinite resins contain no succinic acid and oxygen from 6% to 15%.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Retinite. The system of mineralogy of James Dwight Dana 1837-1868 . John Wiley & Sons . 1895 . 6 . 1004 . Dana . James Dwight . James Dwight Dana . Dana . Edward Salisbury . Edward Salisbury Dana . en . New York . 10749387 . 2027/uva.x002308182.
2. Retinite. 23. 203.
3. Web site: . Retinite. Mindat.org. The Hudson Institute of Mineralogy. Kewsick, VA, USA.