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Internet Colors - Set of 1035 Dark Cyan Color 229 - #008B8B In the additive color system, or RGB color model, used to create all the colors on a computer or television display, cyan is made by mixing equal amounts of green and blue light. Since it is the complement of red, it can also be made by the removal of red from white light. Mixing red light and cyan light at the right intensity on a black screen will make white. This color is also called aqua and was formerly known as "cyan blue" or cyan-blue. The first recorded use of cyan blue as a color name in English was in 1879. Cyan light has a wavelength of between 490 and 520 nanometers, between the wavelengths of blue and green. Some tones of color in the cyan color range are teal, turquoise, electric blue and aquamarine. |
| A surgical team in Germany. Surgeons and nurses often wear gowns colored cyan, and operating rooms are often painted that color, because it is restful to the eyes, is the complement of red and thus does not show bloodstains as vividly, and it causes the least anxiety to patients. | |
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