cobalt

common nounadjective

Syllable Decomposition

cobalt

from German kobalt, from kobold, a mischievous elf who was thought to have stolen silver and replaced it with this mineral, then considered unusable, see nickel.

Definitions

chimiephysique
médecine
zoologie
zoologie

Plural

cobalts

Translations

  • germangerman:Kobalt
  • englishenglish:cobalt
  • chinesechinese:
  • koreankorean:코발트
  • danishdanish:kobolt
  • spanishspanish:cobalto
  • finnishfinnish:koboltti
  • greekgreek:κοβάλτιο
  • italianitalian:cobalto
  • japanesejapanese:コバルト
  • dutchdutch:kobalt
  • polishpolish:kobalt
  • portugueseportuguese:cobalto
  • swedishswedish:kobolt

See also

cobaltite (cn.) cobalts (cn.)