Color Names

Spinel Grey

Dark, like the uncut spinel that hasn't been polished to gemstone sheen.

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Spinel Grey is a dark grey.

It can be described as dark, dim, somber and gloomy.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Spinel Grey

Spinel

Spinel is the magnesium/aluminium member of the larger spinel group of minerals. It has the formula MgAl2O4 in the cubic crystal system. The name comes from the Latin word spinella, a diminutive form of spine, in reference to its pointed crystals.

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Grey

Grey or gray is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning that it has no chroma. It is the color of a rain or storm cloud, of ash, and of lead.

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spinel

Noun

  1. Any of several hard minerals of cubic symmetry that are mixed oxides of magnesium and aluminium and are used as gemstones of various colours.
  2. Any crystalline material, not necessarily an oxide, that possesses the same crystal structure as this mineral.

Noun

  1. Spindle; the amount of yarn that fits on a spindle.
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grey

Adjective

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
  2. Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).

Verb

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
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