Turquoise Panic

Turquoise

Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminium, with the chemical formula CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O. It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a gemstone for millennia due to its hue.

Panic

Panic is a sudden sensation of fear, which is so strong as to dominate or prevent reason and logical thinking, replacing it with overwhelming feelings of anxiety, uncertainty and frantic agitation consistent with a fight-or-flight reaction. Panic may occur singularly in individuals or manifest suddenly in large groups as mass panic.

Turquoise (color)

Turquoise is a cyan color, based on the mineral of the same name.

turquoise

Noun

1. A sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone.
2. A pale greenish-blue colour, like that of the gemstone.

Adjective

1. Made of turquoise (the gemstone).
2. Having a pale greenish-blue colour.

panic

Adjective

1. Alternative letter-case form of Panic (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”).
2. Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden.

Noun

1. Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
2. Ellipsis of kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); any computer system crash.