What is COBALT?

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What is COBALT?

Cobalt is a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27. Like nickel, cobalt is found in the Earth's crust only in chemically combined form, save for small deposits found in alloys of natural meteoric iron. The free element, produced by reductive smelting, is a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.

Cobalt-based blue pigments (cobalt blue) have been used since ancient times for jewelry and paints, and to impart a distinctive blue tint to glass, but the color was later thought by alchemists to be due to the known metal bismuth. Miners had long used the name kobold ore (German for goblin ore) for some of the blue-pigment producing minerals; they were so named because they were poor in known metals, and gave poisonous arsenic-containing fumes upon smelting. In 1735, such ores were found to be reducible to a new metal (the first discovered since ancient times), and this was ultimately named for the kobold.

Today, some cobalt is produced specifically from various metallic-lustered ores, for example cobaltite , but the main source of the element is as a by-product of copper and nickel mining. The copper belt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic and Zambia yields most of the cobalt mined worldwide.

Cobalt is primarily used in the preparation of magnetic, wear-resistant and high-strength alloys. The compounds, cobalt silicate and cobalt aluminate give a distinctive deep blue color to glass, ceramics, inks, paints and varnishes. Cobalt occurs naturally as only one stable isotope, cobalt-59. Cobalt-60 is a commercially important radioisotope, used as a radioactive tracer and for the production of high energy gamma rays.

Cobalt is the active center of coenzymes called cobalamins, the most common example of which is vitamin B12. As such, it is an essential trace dietary mineral for all animals. Cobalt in inorganic form is also a micronutrient for bacteria, algae and fungi.
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In south east of Sudan there is much of this Minral.but corruption in Sudan makes citizen unaware of benifits of such minirals as government desguise all details about it.

bloodspitter
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This is just copied and pasted from Wikipedia, but thank you for helping. Cause I don't feel like reading.

ross
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This is just the wikipedia page with text to speech

prussianacid
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*Squeezing* my! That voice! Ha ha ha ha ×[]! Co-Bolt! Oh my, oh my... That was the funniest thing I hear today!

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this name means my youtube channel! :D

YourLocalAnimatorTFK
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No Copperbelt province is not located in RDCONGO instead in Zambia. Cobolt in RDcongo is located in Kolwezi in Katanga province. Both Drcongo and Zambia are biggest produicer of Cobolt worldwide.

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Então o cobalto não e gerado no nether??

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