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SECT. CCXLVIIL 
2. With the calx of arfenlc. Miner a cohaltl 
calciformis cake arfenici mixta, Cobaltrblut, 
Ochra cohalti ruhra^ Bloom, Flowers, or Ef- 
jlorefcence of cobalt. 
a, Looft or friable, Ochra cobalti pulveru- 
lenta. This is often found of a red co- 
lour like other earths, fpread very thin 
on the cobalt ores, and is, when of a 
pale colour, erroneouOy called Flowers 
of Bifmuth. 
Indurated, Ochra cohalti ruhra indurata. 
^Hardened Flowers of Cobalt. 
This is commonly criftallifed in form 
of deep red femi-tranfparent rays or ra^ 
diatjons : It is found at Schnegberg in 
, Saxonjr 
SECT. CCXLIX. 
Mineralifed, Cohaltum miner alifatum, 
I . With arfenic and iron in a metallic form, 
Cohaltum ferro & arfenico metalliformis mi- 
neralifatUTtk ^ vulgo Cobaltum diktum. 
This is qf a dim colour when broken, 
and not unlike fteel. It is four^d 
f. Steel-grained, from Loos in the parifh 
of Farila, in the province of Helfmge^ 
land, and at Schneeberg in Saxony. 
h. Fine-grained, from Loos, 
t A white cobalt-earth, or ochre, is faid to have beers 
found. It has been feen and examined by a celebrated minera- 
|iil, who has found it in every refpeft, except the colour, to 
refernble th^ cobalt flowers ; and it is very polTible, that 
thofe cobalt lowers might in length of time have loft their 
fed colour, and become vvhiK. 
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