Sentence examples for cobalt from inspiring English sources

The CIA chief of interrogations described COBALT as "a dungeon".

The country now has to import over a third of its copper, half its nickel and three-quarters of its tin, zinc and cobalt.

And nickel processing provides cobalt, palladium, rhodium and scandium.

With further genetic modification and by changing the growth conditions, the selected viruses are used to bind with specific materials and assemble battery components.Having found viruses happy to attach to nanowires of cobalt oxide, the researchers were able to produce a negative anode, one of the two main functioning parts of a battery.

Stars shine fiercely in the cobalt night sky.

At a Christie's sale in London in 2005 he paid £15.6m for a rare, cobalt blue and white 14th-century jar (pictured right) that had been consigned by a Dutch collector.

When the Rapids finally reclaimed the trophy last year, the victory ended six years of Claret-and-Cobalt control.

Matsushita uses a nickel-based cathode, instead of the usual cobalt- or manganese-based one, boosting power by a handy 15%.Matsushita is not the only firm racing to make a better lithium-ion cell.

The first commercial lithium-ion battery, launched by Sony in 1991, was a rocking-chair design that used lithium-cobalt-oxide for the positive electrode, and graphite (carbon) for the negative one.Charging the battery causes lithium ions to move out of the cobalt-oxide lattice and slip between the sheets of carbon atoms in the graphite electrode a state of higher potential energy.

Although their experimental work is yet to be commercialised, the MIT researchers suggest that within ten years solar cells using cobalt-based reactions to store energy could help to power some buildings.

(With a half-life of 5.3 years, the radioactivity of cobalt-60 falls to a thousandth of its original level after 50 years).