Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or containing cobalt, especially with valence 3.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or consisting of cobalt; resembling or containing cobalt: specifically applied to compounds in which two cobalt atoms react like a single hexad element or radical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said especially of those compounds in which cobalt has higher valence.
- adjective (Chem.) an extensive series of complex yellow compounds of ammonia and cobaltic salts.
- adjective (Chem.) an extensive series of complex red compounds of cobalt and ammonia. Modifications of these are the
purpureo-cobaltic compounds .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective chemistry Of or relating to
cobalt . - adjective chemistry Containing cobalt in
oxidation state 3.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Other drumbeats answered and a second Batinite, a tall slim cobaltic, emerged from the grove of six-cedar and poplar.
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Then the cobaltic reached directly into the cerulean's mouth orifice.
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Using its large middle hands, the soldier took the cobaltic by the torso and pushed gently until the other had disengaged and the two pulled away from each other.
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The cobaltic had brought a basket and opened it to reveal covered dishes of the puree of grains and legumes that the Batinites favored on their picnic outings and which the Earthlings called batin-hummus.
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The cobaltic folk may be indigenes, but I think they come from still a third place, and are strangers on these shores as well. "
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