Aquamarine (color)

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Aquamarine
About these coordinates
About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #7FFFD4
B (r, g, b) (127, 255, 212)
Source HTML/CSS[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Aquamarine is a cyan color. It is named after the mineral aquamarine.

The first recorded use of aquamarine as a color name in English was in 1598. [2]

[edit] See also

Aquamarine was also founded as a precious gemstone mainy found in granite rocks.

[edit] References

  1. ^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, SVG color keywords. W3C. (May 2003). Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
  2. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 190; Color Sample of Aquamarine: Page 93 Plate 35 Color Sample I3


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