cobalt

noun
🔊/ˈkəʊbɔːlt/
🔊/ˈkəʊbɔːlt/
[uncountable]
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  1. (symbol Co)
    a chemical element. Cobalt is a hard silver-white metal, often mixed with other metals and used to give a deep blue-green colour to glass.Topics Physics and chemistryc2
  2. (also cobalt blue)
    a deep blue-green colour深蓝色;钴蓝Topics Colours and Shapesc2
  3. Word Originlate 17th cent.: from German Kobalt ‘imp, demon’ (from the belief that cobalt was harmful to the ores with which it occurred).