COBALT is a chemical element with the symbol Co and atomic number 27. Like nickel, cobalt is found
in the Earth's crust only in chemically combined form, save for small deposits found in alloys of natural
meteoric iron. The free element, produced by reductive smelting, is a hard, When isolated, it is a silvergray, lustrous, hard metal.
This metal is also known as goblin ore (German) because of the blue color it produced and because it gives off
poisonous fumes upon smelting.
