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Aquamarine
Aquamarine (Lat. aqua marin, "water of the sea") is a gemstone-quality transparent variety of beryl, having a delicate blue or turquoise color, suggestive of the tint of seawater.

It's closely related to the gem emerald.

Colors vary and yellow beryl, called heliodor; rose pink beryl, morganite; and white beryl, goshenite are known.

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