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Definition of Cobalt
1. Noun. A hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition.
Generic synonyms: Metal, Metallic Element
Specialized synonyms: Cobalt 60
Substance meronyms: Cobaltite, Smaltite
Definition of Cobalt
1. n. A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co.
Definition of Cobalt
1. Noun. A chemical element (''symbol'' Co) with an atomic number of 27. ¹
2. Noun. Cobalt blue. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cobalt
1. a metallic element [n -S] : COBALTIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Cobalt
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cobalt
Literary usage of Cobalt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1909)
"Deals with points in connection with the geology of the cobalt district and the
... 91149 N. The Geology of cobalt. Abstract of a report of the Bureau of ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Metallic cobalt is not at present used to any extent in the arts, though its
utility is ... Pure cobalt is prepared by heating cobalt oxalate Co(C02)2, ..."
3. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"A blue color in the cold bead indicates cobalt. This test is masked in the presence
of large quantities of nickel. In this case the residue is dissolved in ..."
4. A System of Instruction in Quantitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius (1865)
"PROTOXIDE OF cobalt. Protoxide of cobalt and its compounds behave with solvents
like the corresponding compounds of nickel; metallic cobalt like metallic ..."
5. Mineral Deposits by Waldemar Lindgren (1913)
"At both places the cobalt and nickel minerals are the older and the rich ...
In 1903 the silver veins of cobalt, Ontario, were discovered and they soon ..."
6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"cobalt usually occurs combined with arsenic or sulphur, ... Free cobalt recurs
only in meteorites. The most plentiful and important ore of cobalt is ..."
7. System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry by Friedrich Christian Accum (1808)
"I. NATURAL HISTORY OF cobalt. cobalt has never yet been found pure in nature.
... cobalt in the state of an oxid forms the black cobalt ore. ..."
8. The Condensed Chemical Dictionary: A Reference Volume for All Requiring by Francis Mills Turner, Daniel Deronda Berolzheimer, William Parker Cutter, John Helfrich, Chemical Catalog Company, Inc (1920)
"See cobalt zincate. cobalt Hydrate. See cobaltic hydroxide and cobaltous hydroxide.
... cobalt Oxide. See cobaltic oxide and cobaltous oxide. ..."
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