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The water of Havasu creek is turquoise because it has a lot lime in it from the
sedimentary rock it runs through.
Turquoise is the colour of the gem turquoise. It is a slightly greenish shade of cyan. Turquoise is sometimes described as a mixture of pale blue and green. The name comes from the French for Turkish.
People who practise holistic medicine say that turquoise has a calming effect on patients. They use this colour 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 colours.
"The Turquoise" is slang for the waters of the Caribbean. In the sunlight these waters look turquoise because they are shallow.
The colour and gem stone represent December.
