1694–1768
Georg Brandt
Discovered cobalt in 1739.
Element
27CoCobalt
1739
Georg Brandt, a chemist in Stockholm, showed that the blue of a local copper ore came from an unknown metal, and published in 1739. He named it cobalt, after the kobolds that German miners blamed for ores that yielded no silver.
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