The process in which a relatively unspecialized mesodermal cell acquires the specialized structural and/or functional features of a cardioblast. A cardioblast is a cardiac precursor cell. It is a cell that has been committed to a cardiac fate, but will undergo more cell division rather than terminally differentiating. [ GOC:go_curators ]
Synonyms: cardioblast cell differentiation cardiac precursor cell differentiation
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