Antiseptic Slab Turquoise

Greek anti- (against) plus sēptikós (putrefying) — adjectival suffix -ic. As a color modifier, antiseptic implies a clear-and-disinfected-and-clinical quality, the crisp color of medical-laboratory and operating-theater hand-scrub-and-sanitizer surfaces. Sits at the crisp-and-clean end of the grid, parallel to sterile and sanitary in usage.

Old French esclape, splinter / slab. As a color modifier, slab implies a flat-thick-stone-or-wood quality, the visual register of Cotswold-and-Yorkshire-flagstone-and-slab hand-quarried-and-flat-thick stone-and-timber-and-marble hand-quarried-flat-thick-slab surfaces under Cotswold-and-Yorkshire flagstone-and-slab quarry-light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to plate and tile in usage.

The hydrated copper-aluminum phosphate mined in Persia and the American Southwest for thousands of years — the firuze of Iran, the chalchihuitl of Mesoamerica, the heart of Pueblo and Navajo silverwork. The color refers to a fine Sleeping Beauty turquoise from Arizona: a saturated, slightly green-shifted blue with the slight matrix of host-rock veining. Brighter than persian, lighter than cerulean.