Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Kobalt electrolytic and 1cm3 cube.jpg

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Original - Cobalt, atomic number 27. One of the third (fourth) magnetic metals. Typical view of electrolytically refined material. Cobalt-based colors and pigments have been used since ancient times for jewelry and paints, and miners have long used the name kobold ore for some minerals.
Reason
nice metalic view
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Cobalt
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Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Materials science
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Alchemist-hp
But it needs a better caption. Nergaal (talk) 02:44, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Feel free to change or complete it. I'm only a "basic level of English" speaker. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 12:59, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support I am starting to think these are computer generated graphics. But I will start complaining when you come with elements with more than a hundred protons. :p Foldedwater (talk) 17:07, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, but I agree with Nergaal about the caption. I consider myself an enthusiastic amateur on the topic of elemental physics, I read the article on Cobalt, and I'm still not sure what "third (fourth) magnetic metals" means. Perhaps a brief mention of the historical use of cobalt compounds as pigments would be more appropriate? Xtifr tälk 19:18, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps it means "One of the three (four) ferromagnetic elements". Just my guess. --Priest zadok (talk) 12:19, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
More simple: magnetic metals. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 17:07, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Kobalt electrolytic and 1cm3 cube.jpgMaedin\talk 19:57, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]