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Most of the elements discovered in the first exuberant wave of Enlightenment chemistry bear abbreviations close to their actual names: Ni for nickel, first identified in 1751 (an abbreviation of German Kupfernickel , copper-demon, so called because miners first noticed it as a stubborn adulterant of copper ore), Al for aluminum—spelled alumin i um in the British Commonwealth nations (named in 1825 from Latin alumen , astringent substance), Co for cobalt (isolated in 1735; the name is a variant of German Kobold , a kind of imp).
Once a use had been found for nickel (it is what makes stainless steel stainless, among other uses), it became a desirable metal; but its ore was found to have a gremlin in it, which turned out to be cobalt ( Kobalt in German).
62% potassium chloride, 0.39% zinc oxide, 0.06% cobalt acetate; 8,000,000 IU vitamin A, 800,000 IU vitamin D 3 , 400,000 IU vitamin E per pound).
The sections were placed in 2% cobalt chloride solution for 3 minutes, washed in four 30-sec changes in 100 mM 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol at pH 9.4, developed in 1% ammonium sulfide solution for 3 minutes, washed in running tap water for 5 minutes, dehydrated in graded ethanol, cleared in xylene and mounted in Canada balsam.
White and cobalt blue, these porcelain dishes have as their decoration fanciful maps of the world, with the islands of Japan in the center.