Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white to silver-gray mineral, (Co,Ni)As3, that is an important ore of cobalt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
smaltine .
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- noun mineralogy A variety of
skutterudite with thechemical formula (Co,Fe,Ni)As2,crystallizing in thecubic system.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a grey mineral consisting of cobalt arsenide and nickel; an important source of cobalt and nickel
Etymologies
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Examples
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The principal cobalt minerals are smaltite (cobalt arsenide), cobaltite
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The mineral which contains cobalt is arsenide, known as smaltite.
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There is a cutting through the rock of solid smaltite.
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It rusts in just the same way that iron rusts, and the rust is known as cobalt bloom, being nothing more than rust produced by the decay of this mineral smaltite.
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Its chief ores are smaltite and cobaltite, which are arsenides of cobalt, with more or less iron, nickel, and copper.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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