Gāngguǒ shì shìjiè shàng zuìdà de gǔ shēngchǎn guó.
Congo is the world's largest cobalt producer.
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Radical 钅 (metal) marks it as a metal element — same as 铁 (iron), 铜 (copper), 锌 (zinc), 镍 (nickel). The phonetic 古 (gǔ, 'ancient') gives the reading. Almost all chemical-element names follow this 钅+phonetic pattern.
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In Taiwan, the alternate reading gū is also accepted, but mainland-standard pinyin is gǔ.
