how to pronounce cobalt

/ˈkəʊ.bɒlt/

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cobalt is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of cobalt in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… of nickel and cobalt indicative of iron …”

meanings of cobalt

name:

An unincorporated community in Idaho.
A village in Connecticut.
A town in Ontario.

noun:

A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.
Cobalt blue.

cobalt frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word cobalt occurs in english on average 2.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.