Aquamarine is a
color
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that is a light
tint
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of
spring green
Spring green is a color that was traditionally considered to be on the yellow side of green, but in modern computer systems based on the RGB color model is halfway between cyan and green on the color wheel.
The modern spring green, when plot ...
, in between cyan and green on the
color wheel
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. It is named after the mineral
aquamarine, a
gemstone
A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, or semiprecious stone) is a piece of mineral crystal which, in cut and polished form, is used to make jewelry or other adornments. However, certain rocks (such as lapis lazuli, opal, ...
mainly found in
granite
Granite () is a coarse-grained ( phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies un ...
rocks. The first recorded use of ''aquamarine'' as a color name in
English
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was in 1598.
[Maerz, Aloys John, and Morris Rea Paul (1930). ''A Dictionary of Color''. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 190; color sample of aquamarine: p. 93, plate 35, color sample I3. .]
File:Aquamarine.jpg, alt=Rough aquamarine, Rough aquamarine
File:Aquamarine P1000141.JPG, alt=Aquamarine crystals on muscovite, Aquamarine crystals on muscovite
Muscovite (also known as common mica, isinglass, or potash mica) is a hydrated phyllosilicate mineral of aluminium and potassium with formula K Al2(Al Si3 O10)( F,O H)2, or ( KF)2( Al2O3)3( SiO2)6( H2O). It has a highly perfect basal cleavag ...
File:Aquamarine brooch (Faberge).jpg, alt=An aquamarine brooch, An aquamarine brooch
See also
*
Aquamarine (disambiguation)
Aquamarine may refer to:
* Aquamarine (color), a shade between green and blue
* Aquamarine (gemstone), a type of blue beryl
Aquamarine may also refer to:
Arts and media
* ''Aquamarine'' (novel), a 2001 novel by Alice Hoffman
** ''Aquamarine' ...
*
List of colors
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* List of X ...
References
Quaternary colors
Shades of cyan
Shades of green
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