COBALT
\kˈə͡ʊbɒlt], \kˈəʊbɒlt], \k_ˈəʊ_b_ɒ_l_t]\
Definitions of COBALT
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A trace element that is a component of vitamin B12. It has the atomic symbol Co, atomic number 27, and atomic weight 58.93. It is used in nuclear weapons, alloys, and pigments. Deficiency in animals leads to anemia; its excess in humans can lead to erythrocytosis.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A steel gray metallic element, symbol Co, atomic weight 58.97. Its compounds afford pigments, the protoxide being the beautiful cobalt blue.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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A brittle metal of a reddish-grey or greyish-white colour, and weak metallic lustre Cobalt-bloom, acicular arsenate of cobalt. Cobalt-blue, a pigment of alumina and cobalt. Cobalt-crust, earthy arsenate of cobalt.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A brittle metal of a reddish-grey or greyish-white colour, much used in the state of oxide to give a blue colour to glass, and to produce enamels upon metals and earthenware, &c.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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