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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Green means growth - Alphabe-Thursday Summer School - Rainbow Green

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Today is Thursday and high time to link with Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday Rainbow Summer School. This week's colour is RAINBOW GREEN. Green is a quite colour, a mixture of yellow and blue. Sometimes green needs a brighter colour like red to help it out:

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To see the colour green, all you have to do is find some plants. Here is a small patch of wild strawberries:

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According to Wikipedia 'the etymology of the word "green" is related to nature and growth.' Here are some hops growing all over a white painted wooden fence:

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There are several green-coloured gemstones used in making jewellery:

Such as Emeralds;

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And Chrysoprase;
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And Peridot;
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Peridot is a light green stone that is always the same green colour.

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The green colour of other minerals such as Turquoise, Aventurine, Jade and Malachite, can vary. Sometimes they are not green at all.

Turquoise
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Aventurine
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Jade
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Jade
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Malachite,
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I don't have much in the way of gemstones at the moment, when I am making jewellery. I would love to try making something with the soft light green of peridot gemstones. In the mean time I use green glass beads:

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Thanks for visiting!
Best wishes,
Anna

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Christy of
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To visit other posts about the colour green, please go to Mrs. Jenny Matlock's site Off My Tangent for 'Alphabe-Thursday's Rainbow Summer School' - Rainbow Green.



Jenny Matlock


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