Cobalt

['kəʊbɔːlt;-ɒlt] or ['kobɔlt]

Definition

(noun.) a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition.

Editor: Murdoch--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co.

(n.) A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison.

Typed by Elinor

Definition

n. a metal the ores of which are sparingly distributed—in the metallic state found in meteoric stones or aerolites generally occurring combined with arsenic: a blue pigment prepared from the foregoing—also Cō′balt-blue.—adj. of this deep-blue colour.—adjs. Cobalt′ic; Cobaltif′erous.—n. Cō′baltite a sulpharsenide of cobalt.

Inputed by Fidel