Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by composition]
6. inorganic material
7. metal
8. [metal by composition or origin]
9. nonferrous metal

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials
4. materials
5. materials by form
6. materials by chemical form
7. elements

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Scope note:

The metallic element having the symbol Co and atomic number 27; it is a hard, ductile, white metal, resembling nickel but with a bluish instead of a yellow tinge. Cobalt was first identified by Georg Brandt of Sweden in 1735. It has an abundance of 0.001-0.002% in the earth's crust and is found in the minerals smaltite, cobaltite, chloanthite, linnaetite, and erythrite. Metallic cobalt is added to alloys to increase hardness at high temperatures. It is also ferromagnetic. Cobalt oxides and salts are usually blue and they are used as pigments in paints, glass, and ceramic glazes