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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钴 - (also cobalt blue)
a deep blue-green colour Topics Colours and Shapesc2深蓝色;钴蓝 More Like This Colour compoundsColour compounds
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from German Kobalt ‘imp, demon’ (from the belief that cobalt was harmful to the ores with which it occurred).