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    Cobalt is a transition metal with an atomic number of 27. It is a hard, silvery-blue metal that is somewhat reactive and can react with oxygen in air or acids to produce hydrogen gas. Cobalt is found in minerals and obtained through nickel mining as a byproduct. It has various industrial uses such as in magnets, batteries, jet turbine alloys, and coloring agents like cobalt blue paints. While necessary in small amounts, excessive exposure to cobalt can cause health issues like cancer, skin irritation, and lung disease.

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    Cobalt is a transition metal with an atomic number of 27. It is a hard, silvery-blue metal that is somewhat reactive and can react with oxygen in air or acids to produce hydrogen gas. Cobalt is found in minerals and obtained through nickel mining as a byproduct. It has various industrial uses such as in magnets, batteries, jet turbine alloys, and coloring agents like cobalt blue paints. While necessary in small amounts, excessive exposure to cobalt can cause health issues like cancer, skin irritation, and lung disease.

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    Cobalt is a transition metal with an atomic number of 27. It is a hard, silvery-blue metal that is somewhat reactive and can react with oxygen in air or acids to produce hydrogen gas. Cobalt is found in minerals and obtained through nickel mining as a byproduct. It has various industrial uses such as in magnets, batteries, jet turbine alloys, and coloring agents like cobalt blue paints. While necessary in small amounts, excessive exposure to cobalt can cause health issues like cancer, skin irritation, and lung disease.

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    Cobalt is a transition metal with an atomic number of 27. It is a hard, silvery-blue metal that is somewhat reactive and can react with oxygen in air or acids to produce hydrogen gas. Cobalt is found in minerals and obtained through nickel mining as a byproduct. It has various industrial uses such as in magnets, batteries, jet turbine alloys, and coloring agents like cobalt blue paints. While necessary in small amounts, excessive exposure to cobalt can cause health issues like cancer, skin irritation, and lung disease.

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    Cobalt

    J ANICE STA B R O WNE – M S. TU R CK – DU E A PR IL 8 T H  


    Periodic Table Information

    • This element is a transition metal.


    • Its atomic number is 27.
    • Its atomic mass is 58.933, or 59 when rounded.
    • A neutral atom of cobalt has 27 protons, 27 electrons, and 32
    neutrons. 
    • Its period number is 4.
    • Its group number is 9.
    Physical and Chemical Properties

    It is hard, brittle, but ductile and


    The neutral element of Cobalt is a somewhat malleable depending
    It has no odor. 
    lustrous, silvery-blue/grey metal. on its form, and has a crystal-like
    shape.

    Melting point: 2,723 degrees Boiling point: 5,301 degrees


    Phase at room temperature: Solid Fahrenheit (1,495 degrees Fahrenheit (2,927 degrees
    Celsius) Celsius)

    Cobalt is somewhat of a reactive


    element. It combines with oxygen
    Finely divided (powder form) in the air. Cobalt can react with
    cobalt is flammable and may most acids to produce hydrogen
    ignite spontaneously.  gas. However, cobalt does not
    react with water that is at room
    temperature. 
    • Discoverer: Georg Brandt.
    • Place of discovery: Sweden.
    • Date of discovery: 1735.
    • Origin of name: from the German word "kobald" meaning
    "goblin" or evil spirit.
    • Minerals containing cobalt were of value to the early
    civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia for coloring glass
    The Discovery of deep blue.
    • Cobalt was announced to be an element by Georg Brandt
    Cobalt at about 1739. He had been trying to demonstrate that
    the blue color of glass was because of a new element,
    cobalt, rather than bismuth, an element often found in
    the same locations as cobalt.
    Location of Cobalt and How It Is Obtained

    • Cobalt is found in the minerals cobaltite,


    skutterudite and erythrite. These are found
    in DR Congo, Canada, Australia, Zambia
    and Brazil. Most cobalt is formed as a by-
    product of nickel refining and is obtained
    by mining. Some small amounts or traces
    of cobalt are present in all life, which
    includes plants, animals, etc. 
    • A huge reserve of several transition metals
    (including cobalt) can be found in strange
    bulges on the floors of the deepest oceans.
    The bulges are types of minerals that take
    millions of years to form, and together
    they contain many tons of cobalt. A mining project in Brazil for cobalt. 
    Uses of Cobalt

    Cobalt-60 is a radioactive
    isotope. It is an important
    Cobalt can be used to make
    Other alloys of cobalt are Cobalt salts have been used Cobalt is needed for human, source of gamma-rays. It is
    magnets and batteries. It is Cobalt salts can be given
    used in jet turbines and gas for centuries to produce plant, and animal life in very widely used in
    combined with aluminum to certain animals in small
    turbine generators, where brilliant blue colors in paint, small amounts and forms cancer treatment, as a
    and nickel to make doses to correct mineral
    high-temperature strength is porcelain, glass, pottery and part of the active site of tracer and for
    particularly powerful deficiencies. 
    important. enamels. vitamin B12.  radiotherapy. In some
    magnets.
    countries, cobalt is used to
    irradiate food to preserve it.

    Why is Cobalt Hazardous?

    Cobalt may also cause an


    Repeated exposure to
    While a specific isotope of  Cobalt may cause a skin asthma-like allergy. A future
    cobalt dust can cause lung
    cobalt can help treat cancer, allergy. A very low future Cobalt may also cause exposure to cobalt may
    Cobalt may affect the heart, scarring (fibrosis) even if no
    in large doses cobalt is exposure to cobalt can irritation of the eyes, nose, cause asthma attacks with
    thyroid, liver, and kidneys.  symptoms are noticed,
    carcinogenic, which means cause itching and a skin and throat.  wheezing, cough, shortness
    which can be disabling or
    it can also cause cancer. rash.  of breath, and/or chest
    fatal.
    tightness. 
    Works Cited
     https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/27/cobalt - "Cobalt – Element information,
    properties and uses | Periodic Table"

     https://www.livescience.com/29275-cobalt.html - "Facts About Cobalt | Live Science"

     https://nj.gov/health/eoh/rtkweb/documents/fs/0520.pdf - COBALT.doc - "Hazardous


    Substance Fact Sheet"

     https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Inorganic_Chemistry/Modules_and_Websites_(Inor
    ganic_Chemistry)/Descriptive_Chemistry/Elements_Organized_by_Block/3_d-Block_Eleme
    nts/Group_09%3A_Transition_Metals/Chemistry_of_Cobalt
     - "Chemistry of Cobalt - Chemistry LibreTexts"

     https://www.webelements.com/cobalt/history.html - "WebElements Periodic Table >>


    Cobalt >> historical information"

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