Aquamarine Blue

Aquamarine (gem)

Aquamarine is a pale-blue to light-green variety of the beryl family. It is transparent to translucent and possesses a hexagonal crystal system. Aquamarine is a fairly common gemstone, rendering it more accessible for purchase, compared to other gems in the beryl family.

Aquamarine (color)

Aquamarine is a pale blue-green color between cyan and cerulean on the color wheel. It is named after the mineral aquamarine, a gemstone mainly found in granite rocks. The first recorded use of aquamarine as a color name in English was in 1598.

Blue

Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RGB (additive) colour model, as well as in the RYB colour model. It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The term blue generally describes colours perceived by humans observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres. The clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. An optical effect called the Tyndall effect explains blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect called aerial perspective.

aquamarine

Noun

1. The bluish-green colour of the sea.
2. A transparent bluish-green, sometimes yellow-green, variety of beryl.

Adjective

1. Of a bluish-green colour.

blue

Adjective

1. Of a blue hue.
2. Depressed, melancholic, sad.

Noun

1. The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
2. Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.