Turquoise (color)

Turquoise is a mid-value color blend of blue and green. It's the color of a valuable and popular mineral often turned into jewelry. The term comes from a degeneration of "Turkish". Teal, blue-green, and aqua are similar colours.

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Color - Blue - Green - Teal - Aqua

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In holistic medicine, the color turquoise purportedly has a calming effect on patients, and is particularly used to treat patients prone to panic attacks or mania. To a lesser degree, mainstream psychiatric hospitals also use turquoise and other light shades of blue and green to calm patients by painting the walls in these colors. In astrology, the color corresponds to the sign of Aquarius. In slang form, the phrase "the Turquoise" refers to the waters of the Caribbean, which are shallow and therefore take on the color in sunlight.

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Holistic - Panic attack - Mania - Psychiatric hospital - Astrology - Aquarius - Caribbean

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