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Definition of Cobalt blue

1. Noun. A shade of blue tinged with green.

2. Noun. Greenish-blue pigment consisting essentially of cobalt oxide and alumina.

Definition of Cobalt blue

1. Noun. a deep blue pigment derived from cobalt; zaffre ¹

2. Adjective. The color of the pigment zaffre. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cobalt Blue

cobaeas cobalamin cobalamin (5'-phosphate)synthase cobalamin concentrate cobalamine cobalamines cobalamins cobalmin cobalt cobalt(II) sulfate

cobalt-57 cobalt-58 cobalt-60 cobalt 60 cobalt bloom cobalt blue (current term) cobalt isotopes cobalt machine cobalt radioisotopes cobalt therapies

cobalt therapy cobalt ultramarine cobaltarthurite cobaltate cobaltates cobaltaustinite cobalti- cobaltian cobaltic cobaltiferous

Literary usage of Cobalt blue

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp (1916)
"cobalt blue is made as follows: alumina is heated to a red heat in a crucible with basic cobalt phosphate, made by adding sodium phosphate to a cobalt ..."

2. Refraction and how to refract: Including Sections on Optics, Retinoscopy by James Thorington (1907)
"Cobalt-blue glass comes in two forms : one in which the glass is colored ... To the eye, cobalt-blue glass appears dark blue, but contains a great deal of ..."

3. The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States: An Historical Review of by Edwin Atlee Barber (1893)
"SEMI-POR(-ELAIN PLATE, cobalt blue BORDER AND GOLD PRINTED TRACERY. INTERNATIONAL POTTERY COMPANY. blue, still blue, and gray underglaze colors. ..."

4. The Mineral Industry by Richard Pennefather Rothwell (1905)
"As a blue pigment, cobalt is used either as 'smalt/ or as 'cobalt blue'; the latter is ... cobalt blue is a mixture of the oxides of cobalt and aluminum. ..."

5. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"The crystals contain :— Samples of cobalt ore and cobalt blue, from Philipp Hoffnung, near Siegen. Cobalt . . . 29-77 Sulphur . . . 19-10 Arsenic . ..."

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