blue-green

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"Ocean Dream," the largest blue-green diamond ever recorded, sold for $17 million Wednesday, Christie's auction house said.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

The fancy vivid blue-green diamond is triangular in shape and "the size of the nail on your smallest finger" according to Fawcett.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

Those sown in August are currently just tiny blue-green shoots.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

These findings show that marine algae have evolved specialized pigments not only to absorb the blue-green light available underwater but also to withstand the damaging effects of intense sunlight.

From Science Daily • Oct. 22, 2025

The bleak walls have unsightly patches of blue-green mold.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie