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Cobalt 60 is a Front 242 side project featuring Front 242's Jean-Luc de Meyer and Dominique Lallement. They are an EBM group, though they frequently use guitars, an uncommon feature among artists of the genre. Cobalt 60 has also done music for the PC games Command and Conquer: Red Alert and Wing Commander V. Front 242 is a pioneering Belgian electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s. ... Jean-Luc De Meyer is a Belgian vocalist and lyricist who is best known as the lead vocalist of Front 242. ... Electronic body music (EBM) is a musical genre combining elements of industrial music and electronic dance music. ... The classical guitar typically has 3 nylon and 3 nickel-wound strings. ... This computer/video game related article needs cleanup. ... Command & Conquer: Red Alert and its sequels are computer games by Westwood Studios, spun off from the Command & Conquer series. ...


Cobalt-60 also is the title of a popular comic series created by the late Vaughn Bode. Bode's Cobalt-60 takes place in a post-apocalyptic, Mad Max-like world inhabited by mutants, aliens and other fantastic creatures. Its grim, masked hero, Cobalt-60, embarks on a quest to avenge the death of his parents, murdered by the evil Strontium-90. After he succeeds in his quest, he inherits his father's kingdom, but prefers to return to his wild ways.


Discography

  • Full-Length Albums
    • Elemental (1996)
    • Twelve (1998)
  • Singles
    • If I Was (1996)
    • Born Again (The Cubanate Remixes) (1996)
    • Crush - Command & Conquer : Red Alert Theme Single (1997)
    • Prophecy - Wing Commander V : Prophecy Theme Single (1997)
    • It (1998)

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Article about "Cobalt" in the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (947 words)
Cobalt is a central component of the vitamin cobalamin, or vitamin B-12.
Cobalt is not found as a free metal and is generally found in the form of ores.
Cobalt is usually not mined alone, and tends to be produced as a by-product of nickel and copper mining activities.
Cobalt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1053 words)
Cobalt (IPA: /ˈkəʊbɒlt/) is a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal, a chemical element with symbol Co.
Metallic cobalt commonly presents a mixture of two crystallographic structures hcp and fcc with a transition temperature hcp→fcc of 722 K. Common oxidation states of cobalt include +2, and +3, though +1 is also seen.
Cobalt oxides are antiferromagnetic at low temperature: CoO (Neel temperature 291 K) and Co (Neel temperature: 40 K).
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