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COBALTITE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cobaltite mean?
• COBALTITE (noun)
The noun COBALTITE has 1 sense:
1. a rare silvery-white mineral; important ore of cobalt
Familiarity information: COBALTITE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A rare silvery-white mineral; important ore of cobalt
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("cobaltite" is a kind of...):
mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)
Meronyms (substance of "cobaltite"):
atomic number 27; Co; cobalt (a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition)
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