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TEAL
, showing the iridescent blue-green stripe on the head , its exact color as perceived by the human eye varies with the angle of light incidence uses teal.|thumb|The flag of Sri Lanka uses teal. Teal is a dark cyan color. Its name comes from that of a bird, the Eurasian teal (Anas crecca) which has a similarly colored stripe on its head. The word is often used colloquially to refer to shades of cyan in general. It can be created by mixing cyan with black or gray. It is also one of the first group of 16 HTML/CSS web colors. In the RGB model used to create colors on computer screens and televisions, teal is created by reducing the brightness of cyan to about one half. In North America, teal became a fad color during the 1990s, with many sports teams adopting it for their uniforms.
Article summary
, showing the iridescent blue-green stripe on the head , its exact color as perceived by the human eye varies with the angle of light incidence uses teal.|thumb|The flag of Sri Lanka uses teal. Teal is a dark cyan color. Its name comes from that of a bird, the Eurasian teal (Anas crecca) which has a similarly colored stripe on its head. The word is often used colloquially to refer to shades of cyan in general. It can be created by mixing cyan with black or gray. It is also one of the first group of 16 HTML/CSS web colors. In the RGB model used to create colors on computer screens and televisions, teal is created by reducing the brightness of cyan to about one half. In North America, teal became a fad color during the 1990s, with many sports teams adopting it for their uniforms.
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- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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