<P> A 1.1 - kilogram (2.4 lb) lump of ambergris, found on a beach at Anglesey, Wales, was sold to a French buyer for £ 11,000 at an auction in Macclesfield, England, on 25 September 2015 . A 13 - kilogram (29 lb) piece of ambergris was found by two Omanis, washed up on a beach on the Fooshi shores of Sadah province in southern Oman, in November 2015 . </P> <P> Ambergris is found in lumps of various shapes and sizes, usually weighing from 15 g (~ 1⁄2 oz) to 50 kg (110 pounds), sometimes more . When initially expelled by or removed from the whale, the fatty precursor of ambergris is pale white in colour (sometimes streaked with black), soft, with a strong fecal smell . Following months to years of photodegradation and oxidation in the ocean, this precursor gradually hardens, developing a dark grey or black colour, a crusty and waxy texture, and a peculiar odour that is at once sweet, earthy, marine, and animalic . Its smell has been generally described as a vastly richer and smoother version of isopropanol without its stinging harshness . In this developed condition, ambergris has a specific gravity ranging from 0.780 to 0.926 . It melts at about 62 ° C to a fatty, yellow resinous liquid; and at 100 ° C (212 ° F) it is volatilised into a white vapour . It is soluble in ether, and in volatile and fixed oils . </P> <P> Ambergris is relatively nonreactive to acid . White crystals of a terpene known as ambrein can be separated from ambergris by heating raw ambergris in alcohol, then allowing the resulting solution to cool . Breakdown of the relatively scentless ambrein through oxidation produces ambroxan and ambrinol, the main odor components of ambergris . </P> <Ul> <Li> <P> Ambrein </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Ambroxan </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Ambrinol </P> </Li> </Ul>

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