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Co

a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition

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Contestant 76% connected

One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.

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Dissenter 76% connected

One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement.

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Dissident 76% connected

No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different.

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Metal 76% connected

An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmet…

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Monoxide 76% connected

An oxide containing one atom of oxygen in each molecule; as, barium monoxide.

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Objector 76% connected

One who objects; one who offers objections to a proposition or measure.

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Protester 76% connected

One who protests; one who utters a solemn declaration.

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Cobaltite 70% connected

A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.

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Smaltite 70% connected

A tin-white or gray mineral of metallic luster. It is an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron. Called also speiskobalt.

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Cobalt 92% connected

A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co.

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