A gemstone that is a greenish-blue variety of the mineral beryl, or the colour of that stone; the name is from the Latin aqua marina, ‘sea water’. The colour is due to the presence of iron in the beryl, a beryllium-aluminium-silicate (Be3Al2Si6O18).
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See beryl.
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