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Conductor vs Cobaltate - What's the difference?

conductor | cobaltate |

As nouns the difference between conductor and cobaltate

is that conductor is one who conducts or leads; a guide; a director while cobaltate is (chemistry) any of several crystalline materials, containing a triangular lattice of coo2x- anions, that are electrical conductors and have unusual magnetic and thermoelectric properties.

conductor

English

Alternative forms

* conductour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
  • * Dryden
    • Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
  • (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
  • A person who takes tickets on public transportation.
    • train conductor'''; tram '''conductor
  • Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
  • (mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
  • * 1988 , F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory
    • If c is the conductor ideal for R in R then prime ideals not containing c correspond to localizations yielding discrete valuation rings.
  • A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
  • (architecture) A leader.

    • Antonyms

    * non-conductor (3), nonconductor (3), insulator (3)

    Derived terms

    * lightning conductor

    Related terms

    * conduct * semiconductor, dielectric

    See also

    * ticket inspector ----

    cobaltate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chemistry) Any of several crystalline materials, containing a triangular lattice of CoO2x- anions, that are electrical conductors and have unusual magnetic and thermoelectric properties.