Example sentences for: cobalt

How can you use “cobalt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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).

  • White and cobalt blue, these porcelain dishes have as their decoration fanciful maps of the world, with the islands of Japan in the center.

  • 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).


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