'Cobalt' definitions:
Definition of 'cobalt'
(from WordNet)
noun
A hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition [syn: cobalt, Co, atomic number 27]
Definition of 'Cobalt'
From: GCIDE
- Cobalt \Co"balt\ (k[=o]"b[o^]lt; 277, 74), n. [G. kobalt, prob. fr. kobold, kobel, goblin, MHG. kobolt; perh. akin to G. koben pigsty, hut, AS. cofa room, cofgodas household gods, Icel. kofi hut. If so, the ending -old stands for older -walt, -wald, being the same as -ald in E. herald and the word would mean ruler or governor in a house, house spirit, the metal being so called by miners, because it was poisonous and troublesome. Cf. Kobold, Cove, Goblin.]
- 1. (Chem.) A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co. [1913 Webster]
- Note: It occurs in nature in combination with arsenic, sulphur, and oxygen, and is obtained from its ores, smaltite, cobaltite, asbolite, etc. Its oxide colors glass or any flux, as borax, a fine blue, and is used in the manufacture of smalt. It is frequently associated with nickel, and both are characteristic ingredients of meteoric iron. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison. [1913 Webster]
- Cobalt bloom. Same as Erythrite.
- Cobalt blue, a dark blue pigment consisting of some salt of cobalt, as the phosphate, ignited with alumina; -- called also cobalt ultramarine, and Thenard's blue.
- Cobalt crust, earthy arseniate of cobalt.
- Cobalt glance. (Min.) See Cobaltite.
- Cobalt green, a pigment consisting essentially of the oxides of cobalt and zinc; -- called also {Rinman's green}.
- Cobalt yellow (Chem.), a yellow crystalline powder, regarded as a double nitrite of cobalt and potassium. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'cobalt'
From: Elements
- Symbol: Co
- Atomic number: 27
- Atomic weight: 58.993
- Light grey transition element. Some meteorites contain small amounts of metallic cobalt. Generally alloyed for use. Mammals require small amounts of cobalt salts. Cobalt-60, an artificially produced radioactive isotope of Cobalt is an important radioactive tracer and cancer-treatment agent. Discovered by G. Brandt in 1737.
Cobalt, MO -- U.S. village in Missouri
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Cobalt, MO -- U.S. village in Missouri
Population (2000) :
189
Housing Units (2000) :
89
Land area (2000) :
0.145300 sq. miles (0.376326 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.145300 sq. miles (0.376326 sq. km)
FIPS code :
15220
Located within :
Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location :
37.545564 N, 90.288726 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.