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Cobalt ochre
Cobalt ochre, cobalt-ochre (Cobalt ocher in American English) or ochre of cobalt (German: Erdkobalt) — a common name that was widely used in mining and craft environments until the end of the 19th century for at least two cobalt-containing secondary ore minerals: asbolane and erythrite.[1]: 172 They were often used with the addition of a clarifying color adjective or a clarifying mineral form adjective to avoid confusion. Meanwhile, at the beginning of the 19th century, the number of cobalt ochres looked much more impressive. For example, Robert Jameson, relying on numerous studies of his predecessors (from Werner to Haüy), divided cobalt ochres into four classes: black cobalt-ochres, brown cobalt-ochres, yellow cobalt-ochres and red cobalt-ochres.[2]: 503–515 In turn, each of the color forms of ochre had two or three varieties.[3]: 544 Black cobalt ochre had two main forms, which were widely distributed in the mines of Europe: earthy black cobalt-ochre and indurated black cobalt-ochre.[2]: 503–506 Brown or yellow-brown cobalt-ochres varied in composition, sometimes being a mixture of black and yellow cobalt ochres.[2]: 507–508 Yellow cobalt-ochres often appeared in association with various forms of red cobalt-ochres, as well as nickel ochres.[2]: 508–510 Finally, red cobalt ochre was known in three mineral forms: earthy red cobalt-ochre, radiated red cobalt-ochre, and slaggy red cobalt-ochre.[2]: 510–515 At the same time, Jameson believed that cobalt ochres have a lot in common and can be classified as a special class of minerals. ″The Black, Brown and Yellow Cobalt Ochres, and other similar minerals, ought to be arranged together, and form a particular order by themselves. In the mean time, we place them beside the Red Cobalt, on account of their being often associated with that mineral″.[4]: 197 However, from a chemical point of view, Jameson and his contemporaries reduced the entire diversity of cobalt ochres to two groups of chemical compounds of cobalt: oxides (asbolane) and arsenates (erythrite) in different morphological forms of crystallization and with a different set of impurities. Essential minerals
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