Amber vs. Gold — What's the Difference?

Amber is fossilized tree resin that has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Much valued from antiquity to the present as a gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects.

Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from Latin: aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. In a pure form, it is a bright, slightly reddish yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal.

Hard translucent fossilized resin originating from extinct coniferous trees of the Tertiary period, typically yellowish in colour. It has been used in jewellery since antiquity.

A yellow precious metal, the chemical element of atomic number 79, used especially in jewellery and decoration and to guarantee the value of currencies.

A hard, translucent, usually brownish-yellow fossil resin, used for making jewelry and other ornamental objects.

A deep lustrous yellow or yellow-brown colour

A brownish yellow.

Coins or other articles made of gold

Having the color of amber; brownish-yellow.

The bullseye of an archery target.

Made of or resembling amber

Symbol Au A soft, yellow, corrosion-resistant element, the most malleable and ductile metal, occurring in veins and alluvial deposits and recovered by mining, panning, or sluicing. A good thermal and electrical conductor, gold is generally alloyed to increase its strength, and it is used as a common monetary standard, in jewelry, for decoration, and as a plated coating on a wide variety of electrical and mechanical components. Atomic number 79; atomic weight 196.967; melting point 1,064.2°C; boiling point 2,856.0°C; specific gravity 19.3; valence 1, 3. See Periodic Table.

(obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.

Coinage made of this element.

A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.

A gold standard.

A yellow-orange colour.

Money; riches.

(British) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection when safe to do so.

A light olive-brown to dark yellow, or a moderate, strong to vivid yellow.

The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.

Something regarded as having great value or goodness

(uncountable) Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.

A medal made of gold awarded to one placing first in a competition, as in the Olympics

Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.

Having the color of gold.

To perfume or flavour with ambergris.

(uncountable) A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.

To preserve in amber.

A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so.

To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.

(uncountable) A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.

To take on the yellow colour of amber.

(countable) The bullseye of an archery target.

A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.

(countable) A gold medal.

Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.

(figuratively) Anything or anyone that is very valuable.

Ambergris.

A grill jewellery worn on front teeth made of gold.

The balsam, liquidambar.

Made of gold.

Consisting of amber; made of amber.

Having gold of gold.

Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored.

(of commercial services) Premium, superior.

To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.

Of a musical recording: having sold 500,000 copies.

To preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly.

In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.

A deep yellow color;

To appear or cause to appear golden.

A hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry

Of or referring to a gold version of something

A medium to dark brownish yellow color

An old English name of some yellow flower, - the marigold (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.

A metallic element of atomic number 79, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat (melting point 1064.4° C), moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.97.

Money; riches; wealth.

A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold.

Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold.

Coins made of gold

A deep yellow color;

A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia

Great wealth;

Something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.;

Made from or covered with gold;

Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold;