Blue-green facts for kids
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Blue-green is a beautiful color that mixes blue and green. It's like the color of a clear ocean or a bright turquoise gem. You can think of it as a deep shade of cyan.
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Understanding Blue-Green on Color Wheels
Have you ever seen a color wheel? It's a circle that shows how colors relate to each other. On an older type of color wheel, called the red-yellow-blue (RYB) color wheel, red, yellow, and blue were seen as the main or "primary" colors.
How Blue-Green is Made
When you mix two primary colors, you get a "secondary" color. For example, mixing yellow and blue makes green. Blue-green is a "tertiary" color. This means it's made by mixing a primary color (like blue) with a secondary color (like green). So, blue-green sits right between blue and green on this old color wheel.
Other Tertiary Colors
On the RYB color wheel, there are other tertiary colors too. These include red-violet, blue-violet, yellow-green, yellow-orange, and red-orange. Each one is a mix of a primary and a secondary color.
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Images for kids
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A sample of turquoise
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A lake colored blue-green by glacial flour
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See also
In Spanish: Azul verde para niños
